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On Samstag 23 Mai 2009, 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 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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subscribe to gentoo-announce |
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read changelogs |
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don't forget that it takes a while until all mirrors have that change. |