From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cracklib: Fix buffer overflow
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:33:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110203331.GA9807@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915153646.GA31020@jasmine>
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:36:46AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> This patch cherry-picks an upstream commit to fix a buffer overflow in
> cracklib. Please see the patch file for more information about the bug.
> From 62f8f1763ba1766e92e8dc05686bd9353eaf2ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:34:49 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: cracklib: Fix buffer overflow.
>
> * gnu/packages/patches/cracklib-fix-buffer-overflow.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> * gnu/packages/password-utils.scm (cracklib)[source]: Use it.
I forgot about this patch.
Debian applied it:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-cracklib/pkg-cracklib.git/tree/debian/patches/overflow-processing-long-words.patch
I'll push it today if I hear no objections.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-10 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 15:36 cracklib: Fix buffer overflow Leo Famulari
2016-09-20 9:32 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-20 17:43 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-10 20:33 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-01-10 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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