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Additional information has been published by upstream about why they
believe the vulnerability to not be exploitable over the network:
https://matrix.org/blog/2024/08/libolm-deprecation/

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* updates the text of the vulnerability warning to indicate that
  upstream does not believe the issues to be exploitable over the
  network, and
* adds a link to the blog post.

Co-authored-by: Emily <hello@emily.moe>
Signed-off-by: Sumner Evans <sumner.evans@automattic.com>
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disclaims that its implementations are not cryptographically secure
and should not be used when cryptographic security is required.
It is not known that the issues can be exploited over the network in
practical conditions. Upstream has stated that the library should
not be used going forwards, and there are no plans to move to a
another cryptography implementation or otherwise further maintain
the library at all.
It is not known if the issues can be exploited over the network in
practical conditions. Upstream does not believe such an attack is
feasible, but has stated that the library should not be used going
forward, and there are no plans to move to a another cryptography
implementation or otherwise further maintain the library at all.
You should make an informed decision about whether to override this
security warning, especially if you critically rely on end‐to‐end
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project lead:
<https://matrix.org/blog/2024/08/16/this-week-in-matrix-2024-08-16/#dept-of-encryption-closed-lock-with-key>
* A blog post about libolm's deprecation on the Matrix.org blog that also
explains why upstream believes the vulnerabilities are not exploitable
over the network:
<https://matrix.org/blog/2024/08/libolm-deprecation/>
* A (likely incomplete) aggregation of client tracking issue links:
<https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/334638#issuecomment-2289025802>
'' ];
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