[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#635549: Stable update of hplip for CVE-2011-2722 (#635549) ?

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 20:17 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 14:58 +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> >       * Fix CVE-2011-2722 "Insecure tempfile handling" by patching the culprit
> >         code out. (Closes: #635549)
> 
> I'm assuming the debug code isn't likely to be used that often?  The
> upstream bug (<URL:https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/809904>)
> implies that they were looking at replacing the code with a mkstemp()
> call, rather than removing it.  If it's basically unused then patching
> it out should be okay though.

fwiw, the above wasn't a rhetorical question.  I was anticipating that
the next action would have been a reply, not an upload...

Anyway, now the upload has occurred, it will get processed in due
course.

Regards,

Adam