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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 37744@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37744: Per-user profile directory hijack (CVE-2019-17365 for Nix)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:25:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k193ktk9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878spjnqlo.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:01:39 +0200")

Hallo!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès 写道:
>> See https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37744
>
> Will this be automatically linkified?

Yes, I think so.

>> # Upgrading
>>
>> On multi-user systems, we recommend upgrading the daemon now.
>>
>> To upgrade the daemon on a “foreign distro”, run something along
>> these
>
> Imperialist nitpick: why list the foreigners first?  :-)
>
> Anti-imperialist nitpick: reversing the two allows using ‘other
> distributions’ instead of ‘foreign’ which always sounds a bit
> dismissive to my ears.
>
> End nitpick.

That makes sense to me; I’m not satisfied with “foreign” either (I think
the inspiration came from FFIs, but still).  Maybe “fellow distros”?
:-)

I’ve received the CVE ID (CVE-2019-18192) just now so I’ve added it to
the article and pushed it.

It should show up on line shortly.

Thank you for your feedback!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-17 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-14  7:47 bug#37744: Per-user profile directory hijack (CVE-2019-17365 for Nix) Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-14  7:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-14 11:53   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-14 16:37     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-15 12:34     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-15 14:31       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-16  6:57         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 10:22           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 13:25             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 14:22               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-16 15:16                 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-16 15:19                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-16 15:23                     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-16 17:05                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 19:50                         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-16 19:55                           ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-16 21:40                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 21:41                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 19:58                         ` Julien Lepiller
2019-10-16 21:38                           ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 15:37                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-16 21:39                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-17  2:58                     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-17  3:01                       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-16 20:28               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-17 16:18               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-17 19:01                 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-17 20:25                   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-10-18  2:21                     ` Bengt Richter
2019-10-18 14:36                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-19  1:32                         ` Bengt Richter
2019-10-16 14:12             ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2019-10-16 20:01               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-16 16:28             ` Julien Lepiller

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