From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flex security update: RCE in generated code (CVE-2016-6354)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:49:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160826224959.GA8478@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160826221426.GA29432@jasmine>
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: flex: Fix CVE-2016-6354.
>
> * gnu/packages/flex.scm (flex)[replacement]: New field.
> (flex/fixed): New variable.
> * gnu/packages/patches/flex-CVE-2016-6354.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
As Mark pointed out on #guix, bugs in flex's generated code can not be
addressed with a graft. Also, the upstream tarballs that we build from
often contain code generated by flex.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-26 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 22:14 Flex security update: RCE in generated code (CVE-2016-6354) Leo Famulari
2016-08-26 22:49 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-08-27 21:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-28 0:54 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-28 9:41 ` Efraim Flashner
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