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Up expat (2.5.0), CVE-2022-43680. Again.
author Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org>
date Fri Dec 02 10:26:08 2022 +0000 (18 months ago)
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     1.4 +Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both
     1.5 +the process and its pty.
     1.6 +
     1.7 +Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough.
     1.8 +There might be a password prompt that doesn't read from stdin, output
     1.9 +that changes when it's going to a pipe rather than a terminal,
    1.10 +or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal.
    1.11 +If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo
    1.12 +terminal (pty) is the answer.