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Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:23:27 -0400 |
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> Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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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 |
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>>> described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite |
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>>> disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not |
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>>> ready |
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>>> Which one is it? |
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>>> [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ |
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>> It's in portage, sync your tree and check again. I just installed |
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>> Pidgin 2.5.6 last night. |
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> I guess the mirror I'm using is not up-to-date and they will get a |
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> report about it, |
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> Thanks! |
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I sync from rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage primarily due |
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to the fact that it's an unlimited-sync server. |
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