From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: binutils CVEs
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:37:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87377lcgss.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AA953065-AF3B-4F6B-8E43-AE8D30739675@flashner.co.il>
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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> On September 17, 2017 9:25:11 PM GMT+03:00, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>>
>>> There's a large number of CVEs against binutils@2.28. Gentoo¹ has a
>>nice
>>> long list of the CVEs, and I've put together a patch to graft a
>>> replacement, but I'm getting grafting errors:
>>> ERROR: replacement length differs from the original length
>>"h9nqlf0c82c1sds4yzs60k7pm4f37si2-binutils-2.28"
>>"wl5dg3dnqvk2v2ahh5iadnv1s34rsbb6-binutils-2.28.1"
>>
>>This is because the replacement name is two bytes longer (.1).
>>
>>To fix it, the version field of the replacement must be set to
>>something
>>with equal length of "2.28". I suppose we can use just that and
>>hard-code the source URL?
>
> That is the obvious solution, but I don't like it. It does make it harder to verify that it's grafted correctly but I guess it'll just have to be that way.
Maybe "2281". Or "fixd".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-17 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 18:19 binutils CVEs Efraim Flashner
2017-09-17 18:25 ` Marius Bakke
2017-09-17 18:31 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-09-17 18:37 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-09-17 20:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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