Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 · curl/curl · Discussion #12026
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We are cutting the release cycle short and will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, including fixes for a severity HIGH CVE and one severity LOW. The one rated HIGH is probably the worst curl securit...
    • PeWu@lemmy.ml
      15·
      9 months ago

      For real. One with .webp, one with privilege escalation, and now this.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      14·
      9 months ago

      Canonical has been aggressively expanding their security team, and Levels.fyi showed last quarter that security researchers were some of the highest paid forms of software development.

      Doesn’t guarantee anything long-term, but there’s a few suggestions that security has gotten a larger focus lately.

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Good. There’s so much chain of trust in the OSS community that it’s hard to keep up with the tens of thousands of libraries that literally hold up the Internet.

        It’s a shame we discover these critical bugs so late in the process, but at least we discover them at all…