[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPHQ server maintainence, upgrade

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Dec 24 23:22:06 CET 2003


On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 08:07:51PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Gabucino writes:
>  > Birzan George Cristian wrote:
>  > > Could you clarify that? What Debian bugs were used?
>  > I guess someone has to break in first to use the brk exploit..
> 
> I doubt it was a bug in apt, dpkg, etc, so it was hardly a Debian
> specific bug..  Anyway, let's please close this pointless distro
> bashing FUD once and for all, thanks a million.
> 
> BTW, one of our (the developers) machines might have been broken into
> and that might have been used to try to break into mphq, so everybody
> should have a second look at their box(es).

Doubtful. If so, it would have to be one of the few with shell access;
most developers have cvs-only access.

Rich




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