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Re: vdr stable update for #496421



Hi Thomas,
* Thomas Schmidt <tschmidt@debian.org> [2008-10-02 14:23]:
> Am Donnerstag, den 02.10.2008, 13:45 +0200 schrieb Nico Golde:
> > an insecure temporary file creation was reported to the vdr some time ago.
> > This is Debian bug #496421.
> > 
> > Unfortunately the vulnerability is not important enough to get it fixed via
> > regular security update in Debian stable. It does not warrant a DSA.
> > 
> > However it would be nice if this could get fixed via a regular point update[0].
> > Please contact the release team for this.
> 
> Thank you for your efforts, but in this case an update for stable is not 
> necessary, because the buggy code hat not been part of any stable release,
> it was introduced in version 1.6.0-1, while current stable only has version 
> 1.4.4-1.

Thank you, this was not known to us so far. I added this to 
the security tracker.

Cheers
Nico
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