From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Expat and libxslt changes for core-updates
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 13:10:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160608101016.GA20565@debian-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1465347219.git.leo@famulari.name>
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:54:05PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> It was not that simple to make these changes for core-updates, so I'm
> sending the patches for review.
>
> For expat, I "re-fix" a bug that was fixed on master already. This
> bug-fix is actually reachable from the HEAD of core-updates, but for
> some reason doesn't exist at HEAD. According to MITRE the bug does
> affect all currently released versions of expat:
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0718
>
> I noticed a "left-over" patch for a bug that is apparently fixed in the
> version of expat on core-updates (2.1.1), so it is deleted:
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1283
>
> For libxslt, I update to the latest version and remove patches that are
> no longer needed. The timestamp issue was addressed upstream [0] and the
> bug has been fixed in this version. These patches were strangely no
> longer listed in 'gnu/local.mk'.
>
> [0]
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=e57df303eca25a2a3f9e0625c29f4b20177858cc
>
> Leo Famulari (3):
> gnu: expat: Fix CVE-2016-0718.
> gnu: Remove unused patch.
> gnu: libxslt: Update to 1.1.29.
>
> gnu/local.mk | 1 -
> .../patches/expat-CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch | 42 --------------
> gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2015-7995.patch | 29 ----------
> .../patches/libxslt-remove-date-timestamps.patch | 66 ----------------------
> gnu/packages/xml.scm | 9 ++-
> 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch
> delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2015-7995.patch
> delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-remove-date-timestamps.patch
>
> --
> 2.8.3
>
FWIW debian's expat-2.1.1(-3) still has the cve-2015-1283 applied. Also,
there's 2 new cves, cve-2012-6702 and cve-2016-5300
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3597
https://sources.debian.net/src/expat/2.1.1-3/debian/patches/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-08 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-08 0:54 [PATCH 0/3] Expat and libxslt changes for core-updates Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 0:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnu: expat: Fix CVE-2016-0718 Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-09 16:20 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 0:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Remove unused patch Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-08 0:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: libxslt: Update to 1.1.29 Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-08 10:10 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2016-06-08 11:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] Expat and libxslt changes for core-updates Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 11:55 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 13:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-09 16:26 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-09 16:43 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-09 23:19 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-10 12:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-11 0:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-12 20:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-13 2:20 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-13 15:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
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