Apache worm released

[Gerald Combs]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Eric Rossiter wrote:

> Gerald Combs wrote:
> 
> > 
> > According to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-103.html,
> > apache-1.3.22-6.i386.rpm is the correct package to use to fix the chunked
> > encoding problem.
> 
> Ok, so then am I to understand I'm good to go with the version I put on
> today?

You might run an 'md5sum' on the RPM you downloaded and compare it against
the one on Red Hat's page just to be paranoid, but it sounds like you're
OK.

> > More often than not, Red Hat won't upgrade to the latest version of a
> > package to fix a problem.  Instead they backport the fix to whatever
> > version they're currently shipping. The "-6" in the package name indicates
> > that this is the 6th change they've made to the stock Apache 1.3.22
> > distribution.  This sort of naming can cause a fair amount of confusion.
> > 
> 
> 
> Thanks Gerald,
> 
> Eric
>