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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:41:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161012164137.GA32419@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wphfgbw4.fsf@gnu.org>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:57:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Yeah, seems hard to exploit.  Apparently even if we’re not using systemd
> activations we could be vulnerable, because it’s about how specific
> messages are processed, IIUC.
> 
> > What do you think? Should we update this on core-updates?
> 
> I think so.

Okay. Just to clarify, this will trigger >1000 rebuilds.

> 
> > Should we graft it on master?
> 
> Unless there are possible ABI incompatibilies, it probably doesn’t hurt
> to do that.

According to the dbus README, the offer a stable ABI within each stable
release series:

https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/README

But, I found that the regular approach to grafting does not work for our
dbus package. Presumably, it's because (gnu packages glib) exports dbus
before defining it.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-12 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 17:44 [PATCH 0/1] Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates Leo Famulari
2016-10-10 17:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: dbus: Update to 1.10.12 Leo Famulari
2016-10-10 18:10 ` [PATCH 0/1] Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates Kei Kebreau
2016-10-10 18:39   ` John Darrington
2016-10-10 19:30     ` Kei Kebreau
2016-10-10 20:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-12 16:41   ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-10-13 20:19     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-14  3:01       ` Leo Famulari

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