Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 · curl/curl · Discussion #12026
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We are cutting the release cycle short and will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, including fixes for a severity HIGH CVE and one severity LOW. The one rated HIGH is probably the worst curl securit...
  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So don’t announce anything… keep it quiet until the fixes are ready.

    Now potential hackers know there’s a flaw there and will be looking for it, and they have clear space to do so before anyone can fix it.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      From what I’ve heard, it’s to give companies time to prep for downtime to patch. If they just released the fix now, companies would have to scramble to deal with unexpected downtime.

      I believe package maintainers have also been given the fix early to prepare it for release. That means there’s no waiting for Ubuntu or whoever to have the update available.