Public Domain Software Library for AIX
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science
University of California, LOS ANGELES
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All software on this site is compiled on 32bit AIX systems.
Important information
- General warnings, disclaimers about the contents of the Library
- Readme: important information about this ftp site.
- Important information about executable files found on this server
This website is mainly an interface to the AIXPDSLIB ftp site
(ftp://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu).
If you are having trouble to get to certain parts of it,
or having problems downloading packages, you are
most likely having ftp problems. You can try clicking on the
"Readme" link below to see if you can get to the ftp site.
If you can't, please see the FAQ.
Even though the name of this archive implies that the software here is
mainly public domain, most of the packages are published under some kind
of Open Source license.
Packages Built Information for AIX 5.2
- Some Packages built on 5.1 have been successfully tested on 5.2 by IBM.
- Here is a list of these 5.2 packages
Browsing the library
For comments please send email to library@aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu
Security Updates
CERT Advisory CA-2003-21 GNU Project FTP Server compromised
August 17, 2003
Packages that were downloaded from March 2003 to August 2003 have been
rebuilt, md5sums verified and reposted. Please check the "New/Updated" link
under Packages.
Security hole in samba 2.2.7
A security hole
was found in samba version 2.2.7 and earlier. We have upgrade our samba package to
2.2.8
AIXPDSLIB's bind not vulnerable
CERT CA-2002-31
does not apply to AIXPDSLIB's bind, as the advisory is only for version 4
and 8. We are currently at bind 9.2.2.
AIXPDSLIB's libpcap and tcpdump not vulnerable
According to a report (here)
and CERT CA-2002-30,
libpcap's and tcpdump's source trees were replaced on certain ftp sites
to include a trojan. We have checked the source of our libpcap and
tcmpdump packages, and they are not vulnerable.
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