From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Léo Le Bouter" <lle-bout@zaclys.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bsdiff package vulnerable to CVE-2020-14315
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:32:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEkCnBCGYeym0IxR@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <789b3d6f163e1fd4033e77eaa5a864c010e645dd.camel@zaclys.net>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 09:49:57AM +0100, Léo Le Bouter wrote:
> A patch exists from FreeBSD:
> https://www.freebsd.org/security/patches/SA-16:29/bspatch.patch - but
> it needs non-trivial porting since FreeBSD seems to have diverged in
> important ways from the source tree we use.
>
> Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch Linux, Void Linux, none have fixed this
> CVE yet due to missing readily usable patch.
Well, we could also just remove this package. It sounds like it is not
supported on Linux. Does it offer some unique functionality?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-10 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 8:49 bsdiff package vulnerable to CVE-2020-14315 Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-10 17:32 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-03-10 20:33 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-14 21:31 ` Mark H Weaver
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