From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 27308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27308: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Replace with 3.5.13.
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:05:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170610230537.GA14865@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ink3lnr6.fsf@fastmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 08:07:57PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Thinking further about this, replacing a string of a fixed length with
> that of another sounds highly unsafe. So I'm not sure what the best
> approach here is. Maybe some dummy version number like 3.5.a? Or simply
> keep 3.5.9?
We did something similar when grafting bash [0], changing 4.4.0 to
4.4.A. It's not great, but it worked.
[0] commit 50b8a527efe375ac5377670ff0f159fbbce45312 (gnu: bash: Add
graft for patch #7 [fixes CVE-2017-5932].).
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=50b8a527efe375ac5377670ff0f159fbbce45312
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-10 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-10 13:58 bug#27308: [PATCH] gnu: gnutls: Replace with 3.5.13 Marius Bakke
2017-06-10 14:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-10 16:16 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-10 16:37 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-10 18:07 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-10 23:05 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-06-10 23:25 ` Marius Bakke
2017-06-11 13:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
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