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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 06:43:53PM +0100, Miroslav Rovis wrote |
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> And whether the NSS that Pale Moon uses is fine, maybe some of the devs |
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> can tell us, I apologize for for having made too hasty and very probably |
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> wrong conclusion in regard... |
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See the 2nd post in https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=8971 |
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Moonchild (the lead developer) |
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> The moment I am given access to the MozSec bugs after each 6-week |
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> release, I perform a full security audit on the bugs and code |
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> for applicability. If a vulnerability exists in Pale Moon that is |
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> addressed by these bugs, it is patched in the next release, with |
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> chemspill releases for urgent security issues pushed out asap in a |
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> point release. |
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There is some informal slang here that you may not understand... |
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* "chemspill" ==> an emergency similar in nature to a hazardous chemical |
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spill, requiring immediate response |
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* "asap" ==> an acronym for "As Soon As Possible" |
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3rd post in same thread |
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Matt Tobin (developer) |
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> One thing to keep in mind is that just because there is a vulnerability |
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> in a codebase doesn't mean that there always was a vulnerability. As |
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> most know, Mozilla has been rewriting code (refactoring) at a rabid |
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> pace and has actually introduced more security flaws just by |
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> refactoring and rewriting the code badly than were previously there |
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> in the older incarnation of a chunk of code. |
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Short summary... |
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* Pale Moon is an independant fork |
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* Pale Moon started out with a snapshot of Firefox code |
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* Pale Moon has made its own set of changes |
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* Mozilla (Firefox) has made a different set of changes |
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* the two browsers' source code is different enough that a problem that |
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affects Firefox may not affect Pale Moon; see... |
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https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13984 |
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* if there are real problems, there are point releases. That's one |
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reason why Pale Moon 27.0.1 and 27.0.2 and 27.0.3 have been released. |
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E.g. see "Security-related and crash fixes:" in |
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https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14223 |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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