Security Holes in CVS and Subversion Found

joe_bruin writes "News.com.com is reporting a two separate vulnerabilities that affect current versions of CVS and Subversion source control systems. Apparently, major users of these products (Linux and BSD distros, Samba, etc.) have been notified and have patched their systems." Update: 05/20 02:01 GMT by S : Clarification that there are separate issues for both CVS and Subversion.

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PR department you say?

[Samah]

As mentioned in a previous comment, perhaps there DOES need to be some kind of PR department for open source.
Perhaps a group of dedicated OSS developers needs to form some kind of committee to produce non-biased articles re: open source, and pass those on to the media.
Think about it - it could work, and if it was committee-based, unbiased views could be maintained.
Factual (rather than MS-funded/manufactured) data could be used to generate anti-FUD articles which, if advertised/promoted correctly, could reveal to the public some of Microsoft's baseless attacks in the name of profit, and could sway the masses' views of OSS in general.