[Mageia-dev] Drop package: swftools

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Thu Apr 19 11:36:07 CEST 2012


On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, David Walser wrote:

> Should we drop the swftools package from Cauldron?
> 
> Gentoo has dropped it because it is unmaintained upstream and has an unpatched security flaw:
> http://lwn.net/Alerts/493118/

It seems this flaw was fixed in their git repository in 2010 :
http://wiki.swftools.org/viewgit/?a=commit&p=swftools-git%20&h=5a4a20931aade60f0e99df0819fbd1c007a705da

They don't release new versions often, but still update their git
repository.



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