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CERT: trojan horse in some util-linux-2.9g.tar.gz

Andrew Daviel (andrew@andrew.triumf.ca)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:38:15 -0800 (PST)

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CERT Advisory CA-99-02-Trojan-Horses states:

We have confirmed with the authors of util-linux that a
   Trojan horse was placed in the file util-linux-2.9g.tar.gz on at least
   one ftp server between January 22, 1999, and January 24, 1999. This
   Trojan horse could have been distributed to mirror FTP sites.

http://www.cert.org/advisories/

Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF

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