7.7.2017 20.45 "Jason L Tibbitts III" <ti...@math.uh.edu> kirjoitti:


I would argue that it doesn't remove the ability, but that it does make
it more difficult to do in an automated fashion.  Basically you can see
that something has a bundled library but then you need to do manual
inspection to go further.


I think the versioning isn't worth much at all.

If the bundled version corresponds to an upstream release to an extent that
it can be called that version, and checks like the discussed one could be
skipped just by looking at the version label, then it must be practically
the same. So why is it bundled in the first place?

On the other hand if there is a "good" reason it is bundled, that reason
quite probably is that it is a modified version. So it's different than the
upstream one, and thus knowledge whether an upstream release is vulnerable
or not cannot be just assumed based on the version label a packager has
attached to it. It needs to be checked anyway.
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