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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@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 06:47:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lhu1pfzy9lk.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260427215230.629899-1-carlos@redhat.com> (Carlos O'Donell's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:52:10 -0400")

* 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.

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-28  4:47 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 [this message]
2026-04-28 11:38   ` Carlos O'Donell

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