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Red Hat blog explains backporting security fixes to open source dependencies

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Companies often rely on open source building blocks that other people maintain. When a serious flaw is found in one of these, fixing it can mean a risky big upgrade, or waiting while the company checks the change. This post argues that the fix should be made with the original open source community.

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