Bug 31561 - need to update to newer version
Summary: need to update to newer version
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: procmail
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-12 19:59 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-03-12 20:30:28 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2001-03-12 19:59:31 UTC
Currently, RH is building procmail 3.14 (even in the latest Rawhide).  This
really needs to be updated to procmail 3.15.1.  3.15.1 fixes a bug I'm
seeing where messages occasionally get bounced due to a race condition.  In
addition, the changelogs claim that 3.15.0 fixes attempts to exploit a
Linux kernel bug (I don't know the details of that, or if it's a problem,
or what).

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-12 20:22:14 UTC
That's not a problem, as the kernel has been fixed a long time ago. I don't want
to upgrade at this late stage. I'll upgrade later.

Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2001-03-12 20:30:23 UTC
Like I said, I'm not so much concerned with the alleged security problem.  I am,
however, actually seeing the race-and-bounce fixed by 3.15.1.  I've already had
to upgrade two 7.0 boxes to 3.15.1 because of that and if you ship 7.1 with a
known buggy procmail I'm going to have to do the same for all the 7.1 boxes I
install.

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-12 21:34:53 UTC
There are _no_ open bugs against it.

And if we put in a new version, it wouldn't get that much testing - the chances
of shipping something buggy would be higher. So I have a pretty high threshold
of convincing right now... (and I and most others here use this every day
without problems).


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