From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, siddhesh@gotplt.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add advisory text for CVE-2026-5435
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:38:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bbf0c2f-2638-4dce-b8a2-9ab0d414ec45@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lhu1pfzy9lk.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
On 4/28/26 12:47 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Carlos O'Donell:
>
>> +These functions are for debugging only and hence not in the default path
>> +of code executed by the DNS resolver. Further, they have been deprecated
>> +since version 2.34 (2021-08-02) and should not be used by any new
>> +applications. Applications should consider porting away from these
>> +interfaces since they may be removed in future versions.
>
> Drop the “default”, maybe say “application debugging”? The proposed
> wording makes it sound like it's configurable to be on the execution
> path, which is I believe not the case.
Correct, it's not the case that this code is ever in the execution pathh
of the stub resolver.
I've used your suggestions in my advisory text.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-27 21:52 Carlos O'Donell
2026-04-27 22:18 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2026-04-28 4:47 ` Florian Weimer
2026-04-28 11:38 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
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