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24th June 2007

The scanning of the Debian source archive for security bugs has begun.

I've wrote about this previously and there was some interest in how it worked, so I've put up a simple webpage describing the process.

There are a lot of results to go through, but so far I've managed to find one local root exploit and many many many trivial problems.

Sample bugs:

Unfortunately my usertags seem to be broken. This was working a day or two ago. Not sure if I fucked up or if the BTS is broken ..?

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