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bawolfftoday at 7:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Especially since it appears there is a solution if you truly need a fix.

If you ever really need anything fixed in the open source world, there is always the option of doing it yourself


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matthewdgreentoday at 1:59 PM

Doing the fix yourself is almost always the easy part. Disclosing it and getting a patch shipped across the entire Internet is the hard part.

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alibarbertoday at 8:33 AM

Yes - and realistically, if you're $BIGCO who's shipped a billion devices with some obscure curl vulnerability you just discovered, then the hard part is going to be rolling out a patch to all of them anyway, which is still a 'you' problem.