On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> Jeroen,
> 
> One solution to this is just use absolute path names. In that case we know
> for sure that the file will be found there and the security hole keeps
> being closed. A "real" fix has been made in SquirrelMail 1.2.7 but that's
> too much code change for an update to stable.
> 
> Are you ok with this fix?

Didn't review it yet, so no opinion yet.

> We can probably only upload it if someone ever discoveres a new security
> hole in squirrelmail-1.2.6, right?

If we really broke something in a security update (regression), we can
usually fix that up, even if there is no other security fix found.
That's what a DSA XXX-2, etc, are for.

The idea of a security fix in Debian is that the change will be so that
no existing legitimate uses will stop working, if possible.

--Jeroen

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