[R] OT: Linux Trojan Warning - Red Hat and Fedora Users

[Marc Schwartz]

Greetings all,

Just a heads up to the masses that there is a new Linux trojan warning
this weekend.

An e-mail purporting to come from Red Hat's Security Team contains
information on a vulnerability in fileutils, with a URL to a site that
contains a patch.

The site is http://www.fedora-redhat.com/

A whois of the domain shows that it is owned by Yahoo, not Red Hat:

http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=fedora-redhat.com&type=domain

More information is showing up on the web:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/10/24/2352234.shtml?tid=172&tid=110&tid=218&tid=106

and Red Hat is aware of the issue:

http://www.redhat.com/security/

Best regards to all,

Marc Schwartz