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Hi, |
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Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with |
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security problems I got curious about the following case. |
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Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my |
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attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to |
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version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is "~2.5.5-r1". |
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As I see it, there are three possibilities: |
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1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the |
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maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?) |
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2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs described in |
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the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite disturbing) |
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3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not ready |
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Which one is it? |
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[1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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