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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:01:25 -0400
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@...itzky.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2019-17365: Nix per-user profile directory
 hijack

> Hello Michael and oss-security,
> 
> As soon as we are comfortable with a fix, we will release a new
> version of Nix.
> 
> We will also examine how we handle security issues, and publish a
> post-mortem of how this happened and how our processes will be changed
> to prevent this from happening again.

I don't think you handled it unusually badly (shit happens), but the
desire to improve is admirable nonetheless.

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