Procmail got updated!

Roger Marquis marquis at roble.com
Tue Dec 19 17:26:49 UTC 2017


>> Can certainly sympathize depending on the threat model, but how is that
>> any different from Equifax' not having time to patch Struts or not
>> having time to change the oil in your car or to brush your teeth ...
>
> That's a non-sequitur if I understand the response correctly.  Procmail IS
> patched and I assume applied.  So yes mom, teeth are brushed.

Correct from a 'known risk only' perspective but isn't code that is a)
largely unauditable and b) hasn't been maintained for a long time
considered vulnerable regardless of published vulnerabilities?

Perhaps not unlike brushing your teeth only when the dentist finds a
cavity, it doesn't fundamentally change the risk model.

Roger



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