From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: perl: Replace with patched version [fixes CVE-2016-2381].
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:52:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160303055227.GA26189@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160303040613.GA24614@jasmine>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:06:13PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:52:58PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> >
> > > * gnu/packages/patches/perl-CVE-2016-2381.patch: New file.
> > > * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> > > * gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl)[replacement]: New field.
> > > (perl-5.22.1-2): New variable.
> >
> > Should be ‘perl-fixed’.
>
> Done. I also altered the context of the patch to reflect that its
> source is actually upstream Perl, although Debian did cherry-pick it.
>
> >
> > > * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (perl-boot0)[replacement]: New field.
> >
> > Otherwise LGTM, as long as you confirm that nothing goes really wrong
> > once it’s applied. :-)
>
> Here are some things I tried:
>
> 1) Built and booted a VM with `guix system vm`. I don't know if perl (as
> opposed to perl-boot0) is used in this process, but it did work.
>
> 2) Built and installed git on top of it, and then rolled back the commit
> and used `git add -i` to recreate it, and then `git send-email` to
> submit it. Both of those tools are Perl scripts.
By "on top of it" I mean on top of this patch, not on the VM.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/git-add--interactive.perl
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/git-send-email.perl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-03 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 19:48 [PATCH 0/1] Perl: Fix CVE-2016-2381 Leo Famulari
2016-03-02 19:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: perl: Replace with patched version [fixes CVE-2016-2381] Leo Famulari
2016-03-02 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-03 4:06 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-03 5:52 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-03-03 16:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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