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Debian Server Compromised

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fox-in-the-henhouse dept.

Security News writes "According to a post on the debian-devel-announce mailing list "Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org. We've taken the machine offline and are preparing to reinstall it. " gluck is a core development machine."

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  1. Question by Frogbert · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I realise that debian stable release has packages that are very old in order to stay stable. Does this mean that they lack patches later versions of programs use? Or are patches typically backported to the stable release packages?