Turn on automatic updates.
That's great until an attacker compromises the automatic update system and uses it as a vector.
I would wager that far more systems get exploited because they are out of date (sometimes woefully) than by poisoned package repos.
But, certainly do your own threat assessment and develop and implement whatever plan works for you.
That's what cooldowns are for
That's great until you have a public zero-day exploit.
Cooldowns don't apply when you're patching a CVE; like, dependabot vulnerability scanning in GitHub has a separate cooldown from auto-updates
If it's big enough like this one you can always make an exception.
but the embargo delayed the updates
This is how you get wrecked by malicious packages being published or other breaking bugs. Pin your versions.
That's great until an attacker compromises the automatic update system and uses it as a vector.
I would wager that far more systems get exploited because they are out of date (sometimes woefully) than by poisoned package repos.
But, certainly do your own threat assessment and develop and implement whatever plan works for you.
That's what cooldowns are for
That's great until you have a public zero-day exploit.
Cooldowns don't apply when you're patching a CVE; like, dependabot vulnerability scanning in GitHub has a separate cooldown from auto-updates
If it's big enough like this one you can always make an exception.
but the embargo delayed the updates
This is how you get wrecked by malicious packages being published or other breaking bugs. Pin your versions.