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 20:25:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a81tchdk.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170917181927.GB16737@macbook42.flashner.co.il>
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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?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-17 18:25 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 [this message]
2017-09-17 18:31 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-09-17 18:37 ` Marius Bakke
2017-09-17 20:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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