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Message-ID: <542445CC.3010404@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:11:48 +0530
From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: chet.ramey@...e.edu
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash

On 09/25/2014 09:49 PM, Solar Designer wrote:

> I agree.  I only suggested it as an interim measure if you felt that a
> more invasive change was not acceptable yet.
>
> I think Florian's prefix-suffix patch is actually a better way to go
> (right now, unless there's some drawback I am not yet aware of), and at
> a later time function imports should require to be enabled with a
> non-default option.
>

I agree with Alexander here, and strongly suggest that we should be 
using Florain's prefix-suffix patch.


-- 
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Product Security Team

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