Possible gnus security bug (#415562) (was: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny))
On 14 Jul 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:09:12PM +0300, Mika Tiainen wrote:
>
>> Looking at the bug reports there's mention of a possible security
>> problem in http://bugs.debian.org/415562. Someone should atleast
>> look into that, I think it might refer to this:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63627
>
> Given that you've expressed interest in gnus, I think you would be
> the ideal person to investigate this bug and discuss with the
> security team what the correct severity of this bug should be. In
> general, the severity definitions at
> <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities> apply.
Thijs Kinkhorst has just asked the submitter for more information. It
doesn't appear to be the issue mentioned in the gmane URL, that seems
to have only concerned the stable branch.
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