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Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

Posted Apr 7, 2012 7:19 UTC (Sat) by scientes (guest, #83068)
In reply to: Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries? by khim
Parent article: Wheeler: Insecure open source software libraries?

libpng 1.2->1.5 transition in debian http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libpng1.5.html

yes, 1.5 is in debian experimental pre-transition http://packages.debian.org/source/libpng

it so happens that the main change is that 1.5 drops support for an already-deprecated direct access to an internal structure, of which it has long provided a helper function. However, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.5 receive security updates (not as sure about 1.0 anymore)


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