 Re: SMGRTL patch available on ITRC ftp site
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:18 PM, wrote:
> FWIW, reading the patch description text (Yes, with my specs on), there
> is nothing to indicate the severity of or need for applying this patch!
> I'd wager that there are sites that will NEVER install this patch unless
> they see some buffer overflow in SMG. Unless this patch is listed as a
> SECURITY patch, people not following what has been going on here for the
> better part of a week will not install it.
>
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At the risk of sounding sarcastic.
Dude, it's a "1".
That ought to tell you something.
However I will complain that the description of the "problem" in the
release notes is severely innocuous.
If I ran the zoo, I'd have made this a MUP.
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