On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:19:08PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 08/20/00 19:13:32 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > its not the debian packages that are at fault, its fortify, fortify > > does not and will not support netscape past 4.72. you have to do one > > of 3 things to get 128 netscape: > > > > download the netscape tarball from netscape.com and extract the > > appropriate binary out and mv it to > > /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/communicator-smotif.real. > > Thanks for the help. I went with the above option. I stepped up to 4.75 > though. I simply copied the netscape binary to the location of the > navigator-smotif.real binary and after backing it up renamed it. It > works nicely and now I have a 128-bit browser! I never would have > thought of that. I just have to remember to check it after doing an > upgrade every now and then.
be aware that you are probably still vulnerable to at least the java security hole in 4.74 and previous since the java files were not updated (and i think that is where the bug lies) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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