ANNOUNCE: MIME-Tools security patch

[David Lee]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> A very nice person on the Bugtraq mailing list has found some potential
> security problems with the current stable release of the MIME-Tools module
> which is used by MailScanner. These are likely to be exploited fairly soon
> as the hackers all read Bugtraq too.
>
> A patch to correct these problems is attached to this message.
> [...]

Thanks.

Presumably CPAN's MIME::Tools will be updated to incorporate such a patch?
Was there an indication of timescale for any such updates?


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