Re: Evolution Freeze break: Vulnerability issue

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:42 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 mars 2008, à 16:40 +0100, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:07:29PM +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520745
> > > 
> > > Secunia just discovered a vulnerability in Evolution, which can be
> > > exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
> > > 
> > > For more details on the vulnerability, please see the bug. The bug has a
> > > patch attached, which fixes the vulnerability and I have tested it and I
> > > made a same patch to secunia when the vulnerability was discovered and
> > > it worked fine. 
> > 
> > 1/2 approval for me
> 
> Second approval. I'd just like you to add a comment to explain why it's
> important to write the code this way, else someone who doesn't have a
> clue might change it back...
Oh Vincent, I commented that on bugzilla along with my patch approval.
Bugzilla is too slow and so it stands not updated.

-Srini