From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Expat regression fix for master branch
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:21:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160926082107.GD3742@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160925231811.GA1722@jasmine>
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 07:18:11PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 05:35:15PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > This patch applies an upstream patch for a regression caused by the fix
> > for CVE-2016-0718.
> >
> > Apparently, the bug only manifests when building with -DXML_UNICODE,
> > which I don't think our package does.
>
> Sebastian Pipping (the Expat maintainer) contacted me to recommend that
> we apply the patch on the master branch.
>
> He says that the faulty code path can be reached even when XML_UNICODE
> is not defined. Apparently, building with -DXML_UNICODE merely makes it
> easier to reach the faulty code.
>
> I think we should take Sebastian's advice. What does everyone think?
Seems to me that as the Expat maintainer he would know best.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-26 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 21:35 Expat regression fix for master branch Leo Famulari
2016-09-13 21:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-14 18:14 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-25 23:18 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-26 8:21 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2016-09-27 17:50 ` Leo Famulari
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