Package: netcat6 Version: 1.0-8 Severity: important Tags: security
According to netcat6 website: """ THIS PAGE IS OUTDATED AND ONLY STILL ACCESSABLE FOR HISTORICAL REASONS. URLs for downloading outdated sources were removed. Since longer time, following implementations got native IPv6 support: (the original) nc: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/ nmap-ncat: http://nmap.org/ """ normal netcat available in Debian (netcat-openbsd, but not netcat-traditional) does provide now IPv6, and default to IPv6 according to system wide preferences, example: # nc -v google.com 80 nc: zrh04s06-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:400a:805::200e) 80 [http] open GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 302 Found .... # -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pl_PL.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages netcat6 depends on: ii libc6 2.25-3 netcat6 recommends no packages. netcat6 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
