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Re: [SECURITY] xpdf
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>, "Chris J. Breisch" <chris dot ml at breisch dot org>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:32:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: [SECURITY] xpdf
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>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Hi Volker,
> On May 15 22:05, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>>
>> > Hi Volker,
>> > On Jan 17 08:10, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> >> >>>>> Yaakov writes:
>> >>
>> >> > Dr. Volker,
>> >> > Could you add this patch to xpdf for CVE-2012-2142:
>> >>
>> >> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xpdf.git/plain/xpdf-3.03-CVE-2012-2142.diff
>> >>
>> >> Noted, but to busy right now
>>
>> > Any update?
>>
>> Sorry, I'm out of the country until the end of june without cygwin time :-(
> Ok, no worries. I'm glad you're still here. Would it be ok with you if
> we update xpdf temporarily with the aforementioned patch until you're
> back?
Ok.
> Btw., did you see the discussion about replacing man with man-db?
> It started in March:
Yes, but no time to chime in.
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/msg00241.html
> There was also the MNAPATH question:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00283.html
> Chris Breisch (CCed) is working on a man-db port. What are you thinking,
> Volker? Is it ok with you to obsolete man in favor of man-db?
No problem
> Thanks,
> Corinna
Ciao
Volker