On 8/24/22 05:56, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> pcre will also have a drop in found CVEs simply because far fewer people
> will be bothering to look at the old code. If no one is looking for bugs
> then none are going to be reported :-)
That was exactly my point though. If nobody finds CVEs, then nobody has to
fix them. We can only fix what we know about, and blackhats can only attack
what they know about.
Evil hackers will not stop looking for flaws in a package just
because it is no longer supported. The correct response is to
port the impacted packages to use PCRE2, either directly or via a
wrapper library.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)