[CentOS-devel] yum-plugin-security and shellshock

Thu Oct 2 08:32:47 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 10/01/2014 08:41 PM, Kevin Stange wrote:
> I'll be honest: I don't care about this scenario at all.  My spacewalk
> server would take care of this just by virtue of CentOS having the data
> ever available for these packages and constantly keeping itself current.

but your usecase does not represent a sane interface from the project
side - hacking up something that is going to put users at risk is far
worse that communicating that users need to really just apply all updates.

I really dont understand the corner case arguments you make here, Kevin
you are far smarter than this. Are you just trying to tick a box off and
dont care if that leaves a majority of the userbase exposed by
incorrectly commnunicated confidence ?

The fact that you are actually looking to penalise people who dont run
updates nightly is very dangerious.

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