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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > Which one is it? |
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> > |
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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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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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