nominate for removal: ethereal
Phil Knirsch
pknirsch at redhat.com
Thu Jul 8 15:27:18 UTC 2004
Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 16:43, seth vidal wrote:
>
>>So, would it be completely inappropriate to nominate ethereal for
>>removal from fc3 due to its spotty history of security problems?
>>
>>It seems like an excellent place to start thinking of packages that
>>should be maintained, in fedora extras, by the people interested in
>>using them, not by the central developers at red hat.
>>
>
>
> Are most of the problems in ethereal or in libpcap? libpcap seems to
> have a spottier record.. but that would mean a lot more packages to be
> removed.
>
Actually, ethereal itself has had many more security erratas than
tcpdump/libpcap (i'd say roughly 10 times as many).
So although tcpdump and libpcap sometimes have a security errata, it's
by for not as serious as ethereal.
Read ya, Phil
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