Re: concerning 760476
Control: reassign -1 cups 1.7.5-1
On 2014-10-28 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I think that the bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760476
> is more serious than it seems. By cups closing gnutls' /dev/urandom
> descriptor it makes gnutls to read from whatever file is open and has
> the same descriptor number in order to fill its random pool. In the
> reported case we were lucky that the descriptor didn't allow read and
> the issue was detected.
> I think that the issue should be reassigned to cups and it should be
> modified to close the known file descriptors (stdin/stdout/stderr)
> instead of all open descriptors.
[...]
Thanks for the explanation. re-assigning. (I will subscribe to the
bug-report to keep me updated)
cu Andreas
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