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Exactly!

It often takes more time to assess whether your system is truly vulnerable to a given public exploit than it takes to just grab a newer version of the component.

Also worth considering: getting pwned because of a 0day is no fun, but getting pwned because of an unpatched CVE in your system - priceless.



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