Re: Possible problems in your Debian packages
On 30.10.09 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > The bibtex crash is fixed in bibtex8. My last proposal in #520920
> > was:
> >
> > "I propose to remove the old bibtex binary and document that change
> > prominently in the NEWS file."
> >
> > The original bibtex binary by OP will probably never be fixed.
>
> Are you sure? The CVE links to a discussion in the RedHat BTS,
> where Karl Berry is cited, saying that he has fixed "it".
>
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2009-August/021998.html
>
> The patch he talks about is in the sources; the only thing I'm
> unsure about is whether they were really talking about the same
> thing. It looks like, though.
>
As I didn't escalate this bug anywhere I din't assume that anybody
would care about it. Karl did, so the bug is fixed in TL2009.
Thanks for the pointer!
Hilmar
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