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Re:Security advisory for crates.io by tetraodonpuffer on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:23PM (#15288946)
the response time of the rust team was extremely quick, great job!

2017-09-13 @ 19:19 - Justin sends mail to [email protected] about this

2017-09-13 @ 19:28 - response sent to Justin acknowledging the vulnerability

2017-09-13 @ 21:14 - a patch to crates.io was finished, all current tarballs verified not-malicious

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Re:Security advisory for crates.io by nindalf on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:49PM (#15289131)
Gotta agree, a response that rapid is impressive.
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Re:Security advisory for crates.io by steveklabnik on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:57PM (#15289177)
All kudos to Alex and Carol on this one; by the time I had seen the email, the fix was already being tested!
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