Hello Adolf, > On 13 May 2025, at 17:25, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 13/05/2025 17:54, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Thank you! >>> On 13 May 2025, at 16:51, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> On 13/05/2025 16:45, Michael Tremer wrote: >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> While I am handing our tasks on the list, would anyone be up for applying >>>> a couple of security patches to screen? >>> >>> I am doing various update builds anyway so I will pick that up next. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adolf. >>> >>>> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 >>>> The fixes are attached to the email. I don’t believe a new version has >>>> been released, yet. > > I just found that version 5.0.1 has been "released" yesterday but is not yet > in the source tarball download directory but it says it will come soon. > > I might just wait a while to see if that comes "soon".
I am happy to wait for this because we won’t have a release our that quickly anyways. Core Update 195 will be released in about four weeks, so we have time. > I have a question anyway, about the patches from that email. the filename of > the 5.0.0 patch is > > screen_5_0_0_patches_tar_gz.bin > > I have no idea why it is showing up as a bin file, but I am not keen to > download and try and open it up. Not sure how to open it anyway, depending > what the .bin means anyway. I think the mailing list renamed the file. It is just a tar.gz file and you can rename it and extract it as usual. Best, -Michael > Regards, > Adolf. > >>>> Best, >>>> -Michael
