layout: post title: “Another security advisory -- Additional CPU amplification case” author: kentonv

Unfortunately, it turns out that our fix for one of the security advisories issued on Monday was not complete.

Fortunately, the incomplete fix is for the non-critical vulnerability. The worst case is that an attacker could consume excessive CPU time.

Nevertheless, we've issued a new advisory and pushed a new release:

Sorry for the rapid repeated releases, but we don't like sitting on security bugs.