On Mon, 2024-04-01 at 12:16 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1 2024 at 10:12:55 AM -07:00:00, Adam Williamson 
> <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > This is not really correct, or at least at all relevant. The bug 
> > wasn't
> > in F40 Beta simply because the update never made it to 'stable'. Only
> > 'stable' packages go into *composes*. However, saying that is not
> > really useful because anyone who *installed* Beta and then updated it
> > regularly may have got the vulnerable package. We should not say
> > anything to give people the impression that if they installed Beta,
> > they don't need to worry. That is not true or helpful.
> 
> Thing is, the bug was fixed before Fedora 40 Beta was released. If you 
> installed the beta on or after the release date, you never got the 
> builds with ifuncs enabled. This is why it's correct to say that only 
> "pre-beta" builds were backdoored.

Oh, ISWYM. Well, I suppose yes, that does happen to be true. We could
communicate that if it's done very carefully and made really clear that
it's about the *time frame*, nothing to do with the repositories.
-- 
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