From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Update imlib2 and patch against CVE-2016-4024
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:01:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160423040102.GA2094@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn51ggem.fsf@netris.org>
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:20:17PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
> > This applies from a patch from imlib2's source code repository.
> >
> > The change fixes an integer overflow on 32-bit machines. The upstream
> > says:
> >
> > Security implications:
> > *) for 32-bit machines: insufficient heap allocation and heap overwrite
> > in many image loaders, with escalation potential to remote code
> > execution;
> > *) for 64-bit machines: it seems, no impact.
> >
> > In the patch file, there are references to imlib2's source repo and the
> > CVE page on Mitre.
> >
> > I tested that feh and scrot still work with this change.
>
> Looks good to me. Please push.
Done as e993fb84
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-23 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-21 3:19 [PATCH 0/2] Update imlib2 and patch against CVE-2016-4024 Leo Famulari
2016-04-21 3:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: imlib2: Update to 1.4.8 Leo Famulari
2016-04-21 3:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: imlib2: Fix CVE-2016-4024 Leo Famulari
2016-04-23 3:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] Update imlib2 and patch against CVE-2016-4024 Mark H Weaver
2016-04-23 4:01 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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