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Re: security notice: Locale::Maketext: CVE?

From: Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li>
Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:12:14 +0000
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:05:01PM -0500, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> [2012-12-05T13:51:19]> > I wondered (and the question has arised within the Debian project) whether> > anyone might be relying on the previous behaviour? Have you been able to do> > any assessment of this?> > It's difficult to say, unfortunately, because (I suppose) most projects that> would use Locale::Maketext would not be CPAN projects, and so finding them is> not trivial.> > I did do some grepping of the CPAN and found zero cases.> > It should be quite easy to add this behavior back as optional, if we find> we've broken anything.> > I'm sorry I can't be more concrete!

Thanks for this. Has a CVE been assigned to this vulnerability yet,
and if so, what's the best way to do so?

Thanks,
Dominic.

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