[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom+Texmacs

[Tim Yamin]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:09:14PM -0500, root wrote:
> i admit that i'm not awk literate. even so, this patch is nearly line noise.
> 
> can you give me a clue what the security hole is and how this patch
> fixes it? the whole point of literate programming is to explain the
> how and why. please write a literate form of the patch.

Not my patch I'm afraid. I believe it's a Debian patch and some of it fixes
CVE-2005-3342 while other parts fix an older issue from 2003; CAN-2003-0381.

The following bugs have some more details:

* http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22972
* http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122705

Thanks,

Tim