On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:54:05PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > It was not that simple to make these changes for core-updates, so I'm > sending the patches for review. > > For expat, I "re-fix" a bug that was fixed on master already. This > bug-fix is actually reachable from the HEAD of core-updates, but for > some reason doesn't exist at HEAD. According to MITRE the bug does > affect all currently released versions of expat: > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0718 > > I noticed a "left-over" patch for a bug that is apparently fixed in the > version of expat on core-updates (2.1.1), so it is deleted: > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1283 > > For libxslt, I update to the latest version and remove patches that are > no longer needed. The timestamp issue was addressed upstream [0] and the > bug has been fixed in this version. These patches were strangely no > longer listed in 'gnu/local.mk'. > > [0] > https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=e57df303eca25a2a3f9e0625c29f4b20177858cc > > Leo Famulari (3): > gnu: expat: Fix CVE-2016-0718. > gnu: Remove unused patch. > gnu: libxslt: Update to 1.1.29. > > gnu/local.mk | 1 - > .../patches/expat-CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch | 42 -------------- > gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2015-7995.patch | 29 ---------- > .../patches/libxslt-remove-date-timestamps.patch | 66 ---------------------- > gnu/packages/xml.scm | 9 ++- > 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch > delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2015-7995.patch > delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-remove-date-timestamps.patch > > -- > 2.8.3 > FWIW debian's expat-2.1.1(-3) still has the cve-2015-1283 applied. Also, there's 2 new cves, cve-2012-6702 and cve-2016-5300 https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3597 https://sources.debian.net/src/expat/2.1.1-3/debian/patches/ -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted