From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, "Mark H. Weaver" <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Handling ‘file’ CVE
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:41:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87389nl6wi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Commit 3940c5c makes a replacement for ‘file’, so that the new version
of file (5.20), which fixes a security vulnerability, is now grafted
onto packages that are installed.
I wonder if using a replacement makes sense here, because few packages
actually retain a dependency on ‘file’, and since grafting is
conservative, we graft anything that might retain a dependency on
‘file’, which means everything.
What about this other option: make another public package, ‘file-5.20’,
next to ‘file’, such that when a user explicitly installs ‘file’, they
get the new one?
That won’t address people referring to ‘file’ (the variable) in their OS
configuration, though.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next reply other threads:[~2014-11-13 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-13 10:41 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-11-13 13:00 ` Handling ‘file’ CVE Andreas Enge
2014-11-13 13:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-13 16:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-13 18:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-11-13 18:47 ` Eric Bavier
2014-11-13 20:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-13 20:42 ` Eric Bavier
2014-11-13 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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