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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:22:49 -0000
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Gunther Mayer" <gunther.mayer@googlemail.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When can we have a secure libxml2?
Message-ID:  <op.ujbzsbgq9aq2h7@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <48FC693E.6030409@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:19:26 -0000, Gunther Mayer  
<gunther.mayer@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask but we're using libxml2 and the  
> version in ports (2.6.x) currently suffers from a rather serious  
> security vulnerability:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/portaudit/d71da236-9a94-11dd-8f42-001c2514716c.html
>
> Yet there's no libxml2-2.7.x in ports as required by the above notice.  
> So there's no solution other than compiling an up-to-date one by hand  
> and that opens up a whole different can of worms regarding dependencies.
>
> When will this be addressed?

Done.

> Regards,
>
> Gunther


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