On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 20:17 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 14:58 +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: > > * Fix CVE-2011-2722 "Insecure tempfile handling" by patching the > > culprit > > code out. (Closes: #635549) > > I'm assuming the debug code isn't likely to be used that often? The > upstream bug (<URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/809904>) > implies that they were looking at replacing the code with a mkstemp() > call, rather than removing it. If it's basically unused then patching > it out should be okay though.
fwiw, the above wasn't a rhetorical question. I was anticipating that the next action would have been a reply, not an upload... Anyway, now the upload has occurred, it will get processed in due course. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
