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Openssl

I don't normally run mod_ssl so didn't pay attention.. but if you're running it (and RedHat gives you mod_ssl by default, yucky yuck) and have openssl v 0.9.6c or lower.. you're vulnerable to .cinic worm. So go patch up.
May I just add.. RedHat is a pain to patch if you don't use an rpm..

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And RPMs are a pain, so....

So, of course I went with lesser evil and built from source :)

I also hate RPMs. It's what drew me to Gentoo. SuSE was a great distro, but I hate RPMs. Gentoo builds everything from source and I just find it nice...:)

Install apt-rpm* so it's just a matter of:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

easy :)

* http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/

You have 226,571 config files that need updating. Type emerge --help config for details.

Hmm... time to clean up /etc

(no, I don't really have that many files that need updating)

ROFL. Time to get to work. I actually like their config protection system...

RedHat's openssl is actually secure and all. Instead of upping the version to a current one their policy is usually to backport only the security patches. On a side note, net-snmp got upped from 5.0.1 to 5.0.6 recently contrary to the normal policy. :)