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Re: [PATCH] CVE-2014-8121: Fix nss_files file management [BZ#18007]
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:05:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] CVE-2014-8121: Fix nss_files file management [BZ#18007]
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Maybe. But we cannot remove the old API (there are external NSS
> modules, after all). Therefore, such a change would only increase
> complexity.
There is no way around.
> Ahem, I think the commit message of my patch explains this quite
> clearly. The code Ulrich added to deal with this corner case didn't
> work as intended because a flag was not set correctly.
Since it doesn't fix the bug, it doesn't make sense.
Andreas.
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