From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ‘guix lint’ CVE checker
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:58:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvtzbw6w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1uwgz7r.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2015 23:42:00 +0100")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> The libxml2/libxslt issues are actually patched, but since we didn’t
> change the version number, the tool assumes that our packages are
> vulnerable. We should change version numbers in the future when
> patching vulnerabilities.
Alternately, ‘lint’ could check the package’s patches and silence the
warning if there are patches whose name contain the offending CVE ID.
That way it would still catch vulnerabilities later reported for that
version.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-27 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 22:42 ‘guix lint’ CVE checker Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-27 9:58 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-11-27 21:39 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-11-28 15:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-28 15:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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