Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> The answer to your questions is 'yes'.  As I understand it, the
> patches were released as they are "for the time being" because it is
> better to crash your application then allow the attacker to compromise
> your computer.
> 
> New patches will have to be released to properly correct the problem
> in the very near future.

Note that changing unexploitable die()s to internal errors is a mistake: 
it is not safe to continue after an internal error!

Cheers,

Ben.

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