I wonder if the issue is that we don't make it very clear how to report a security issue if one is found?

Grisha

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Graham Dumpleton wrote:

Just saw this:

http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2007-03/msg00076.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462050

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-430-1 March 06, 2007
libapache2-mod-python vulnerability
CVE-2004-2680
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Miles Egan discovered that mod_python, when used in output filter mode,
did not handle output larger than 16384 bytes, and would display freed
memory, possibly disclosing private data. Thanks to Jim Garrison of the
Software Freedom Law Center for identifying the original bug as a
security vulnerability.

Would have been nice if they had bothered to actually tell someone
involved with mod_python about it in case the problem still affects
current version of mod_python. Now we have to work out if it is
relevant to newer versions of not.

This is something new isn't it???

Graham

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