Analysis of CVE-2013-4441: pwgen Phonemes mode has heavy bias and is enabled by default

Eric H. Christensen sparks at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 28 14:36:00 UTC 2014


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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:24:10AM -0400, joat wrote:
> Who's the decision authority on stuff like this, where an issue is more
> politics than security?

If upstream doesn't want to incorporate the fix then we can ask the packager to push a patch to fix it.  We can also go to FESCo and ask.

In this particular case I believe we need to have someone review the CVE.  I'll do that now.

- -- Eric

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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Fedora Project

sparks at fedoraproject.org - sparks at redhat.com
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