On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:23:27 -0400
Saphirus Sage <saphirus...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Daniel Iliev wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >  
> >   Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with
> >   security problems I got curious about the following case.
> >   Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my
> >   attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to
> >   version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is "~2.5.5-r1".
> >
> >   As I see it, there are three possibilities:
> >   1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the
> >   maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?)
> >   2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs
> > described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite
> > disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not
> > ready
> >
> >   Which one is it?
> >
> >
> >   [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/
> >
> >
> >   
> It's in portage, sync your tree and check again. I just installed
> Pidgin 2.5.6 last night.
> 

I guess the mirror I'm using is not up-to-date and they will get a
report about it,

Thanks!

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

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