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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1807-1] New cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl2-heimdal packages fix arbitrary code execution

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Hi,
* Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@...> [2009-06-15 17:39]:

> On Mon, June 15, 2009 16:42, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> >> For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem will be fixed soon.
> >>
> >
> > 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+etch1 has now appeared in the security archive which
> > appears to fix this problem, but no subsequent advisory has been released.
> >  Is this an oversight?
>
> I'm not sure - the advisory tells us that the updated packages will be
> released soon, and that's exactly what happened. Point is that we don't
> have fixed rules for which events lead to a "-2" DSA mail and which don't.
Yes, exactly the reason why I didn't release another
advisory.

Cheers
Nico
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