Cyrus IMAPd 2.3.10 Released

[Simon Matter]

> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:36:24PM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
>
>> It may not be worth for you to worry about it but it is worth for me and
>> maybe also for Ken. People using my RPMs expect things to work. And
>> people
>> do use it on affected systems and they fill my mailbox or the list with
>> complaints if Cyrus segfaults for them.
>
> People using RPMs can just install the security updates just as easily
> as a new Cyrus RPM. The Red Hat advisory said a patch is available even
> for Red Hat 7.1; are you still actively maintaining packages for Red Hat
> 6.x?
>
> And what is better? Hiding the problem under the carpet, or saying "See,
> you have a security bug that is known for 4 years. If you have a bug
> that old you probably have lots of other unfixed security bugs as well.
> Go fix your system!". If you do care about the users, you should educate
> them to always install security updates.

Hi Gabor,

Before it gets too OT, of course I understand your point but I still
prefer a clean solution. Since work has to be done on the issue anyways
for *BSD's, I'm quite sure the glibc issue can also be solved at the same
time.

Simon