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Subject: Re: Flex security update: RCE in generated code (CVE-2016-6354)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:54:34 -0400
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:48:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Indeed.  We should add this patch to ‘core-updates’ and start building
> it (I haven’t checked the status of the various branches, though.)

Done as eba7fab890.

I'm not sure of the overall health of the branch, but I have built some
packages from it locally on x86_64. So, the base system seems to be
working.