Comment by lazyasciiart
9 hours ago
Ah, I guess that would advertise that users of the old version are vulnerable. I was imagining some altruistic contributor trying to sneak in a bug fix past the maintainer.
9 hours ago
Ah, I guess that would advertise that users of the old version are vulnerable. I was imagining some altruistic contributor trying to sneak in a bug fix past the maintainer.
Yep, this is for maintainers releasing fixes to secretly-reported 0days without tipping off attackers who are looking to exploit a (sometimes very large) install base.