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Message-ID: <20190722203315.GO1168@jumper.schlittermann.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:33:15 +0200
From: Heiko Schlittermann <hs@...littermann.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2019-13917 OVE-20190718-0006: Exim: security
release ahead
Eric,
Eric Blake <eblake@...hat.com> (Mo 22 Jul 2019 15:28:33 CEST):
>
> Perhaps part of the confusion stems from:
>
> >> t0: Thu Jul 18 2019
> >> - this notice to distros@...openwall.org and exim-maintainers@...m.org
> >> - open limited access to our security Git repo. See below.
>
> This statement makes it sound like the fix can be downloaded by anyone
> that knows about the git repo containing the fix...
Yes, blame on me. I missed to redact that part of the message.
> Or even the choice of tense in this paragraph may help: it sounds like
> past tense ("is the officially released version") even though at the
> time of the email it is a future tense ("will become the officially
> released version").
Thank you for your hints. Even I hope, we won't have a "next time", next
time I'll try to improve the wording/grammer of the messages I send.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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