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Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise
From: "Dave \"No, not that one\" Korn" <davek_throwaway () hotmail com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:37:04 +0100
James Evans wrote:
And now a very important message... RealVNC is distributed under the GNU General Public License. As such, the complete source code of RealVNC *must* be freely distributed. When RealVNC (the company) received notice of this flaw in their software, they were quite prompt in patching it. Such action is normally worthy of praise. Yet, in this case, RealVNC immediately took down the source code to their software. While this was probably done out of fear rather than malice, I believe it violates both the spirit and law of the GNU GPL
It's there now. Perhaps it just took them a little longer to roll the release packages but they rushed the binaries out ASAP so people could get patched? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise James Evans (May 15)
- RE: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Dixon, Wayne (May 15)
- Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Joachim Schipper (May 15)
- Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Michael Holstein (May 15)
- Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Dave "No, not that one" Korn (May 16)
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- RE: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Krpata, Tyler (May 19)
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- Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Matt Venzke (May 19)
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- RE: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise Dixon, Wayne (May 15)