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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flex security update: RCE in generated code (CVE-2016-6354)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:54:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160828005434.GA31891@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poot7ujp.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:48:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 06:14:26PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: flex: Fix CVE-2016-6354.
> >> 
> >> * gnu/packages/flex.scm (flex)[replacement]: New field.
> >> (flex/fixed): New variable.
> >> * gnu/packages/patches/flex-CVE-2016-6354.patch: New file.
> >> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> >
> > As Mark pointed out on #guix, bugs in flex's generated code can not be
> > addressed with a graft.
> 
> Indeed.  We should add this patch to ‘core-updates’ and start building
> it (I haven’t checked the status of the various branches, though.)

Done as eba7fab890.

I'm not sure of the overall health of the branch, but I have built some
packages from it locally on x86_64. So, the base system seems to be
working.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-28  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26 22:14 Flex security update: RCE in generated code (CVE-2016-6354) Leo Famulari
2016-08-26 22:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-27 21:48   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-28  0:54     ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-08-28  9:41       ` Efraim Flashner

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