Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:03:21PM +0000, Marius Bakke wrote:
> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository guix.
> 
> commit 42366b35c3f9f8dc8b059d3369b8196a4b832c18
> Author: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Dec 21 14:56:34 2016 +0100
> 
>     gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586,9952,9953}].
>     
>     * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: Update to 7.52.0.
>     (curl-7.51.0): Replace with ...
>     (curl-7.52.0): ... this.

ng0 pointed out this message from the curl maintainers:

"Attention! We will release a patch update within a few days to fix a
serious security problem found in curl 7.52.0. You may consider holding
off until then."

https://curl.haxx.se/download.html

So, I reverted the update for now. It seems like this new bug is more
serious than the security bug fixed in 7.52.0, CVE-2016-9586: printf
floating point buffer overflow. The other two named bugs fixed in 7.52.0
only manifest on Windows CE with the schannel TLS implementation, if I
understand correctly.

Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

[Marius Bakke]

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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:03:21PM +0000, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>> 
>> commit 42366b35c3f9f8dc8b059d3369b8196a4b832c18
>> Author: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>> Date:   Wed Dec 21 14:56:34 2016 +0100
>> 
>>     gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586,9952,9953}].
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: Update to 7.52.0.
>>     (curl-7.51.0): Replace with ...
>>     (curl-7.52.0): ... this.
>
> ng0 pointed out this message from the curl maintainers:
>
> "Attention! We will release a patch update within a few days to fix a
> serious security problem found in curl 7.52.0. You may consider holding
> off until then."
>
> https://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Thanks for catching that! I think that message must have appeared after
I downloaded it from there, difficult to miss that notice.

The page was updated about 25 minutes after the commit was pushed:
$ curl -v https://curl.haxx.se/download.html >/dev/null
[...]
< Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:28:41 GMT

It was reverted around 16:52 UTC. I hope those who upgraded in between
those five hours reads this list!

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Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

[ng0]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:03:21PM +0000, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
>>> in repository guix.
>>> 
>>> commit 42366b35c3f9f8dc8b059d3369b8196a4b832c18
>>> Author: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>>> Date:   Wed Dec 21 14:56:34 2016 +0100
>>> 
>>>     gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586,9952,9953}].
>>>     
>>>     * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: Update to 7.52.0.
>>>     (curl-7.51.0): Replace with ...
>>>     (curl-7.52.0): ... this.
>>
>> ng0 pointed out this message from the curl maintainers:
>>
>> "Attention! We will release a patch update within a few days to fix a
>> serious security problem found in curl 7.52.0. You may consider holding
>> off until then."
>>
>> https://curl.haxx.se/download.html
>
> Thanks for catching that! I think that message must have appeared after
> I downloaded it from there, difficult to miss that notice.
>
> The page was updated about 25 minutes after the commit was pushed:
> $ curl -v https://curl.haxx.se/download.html >/dev/null
> [...]
> < Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:28:41 GMT
>
> It was reverted around 16:52 UTC. I hope those who upgraded in between
> those five hours reads this list!

Today cURL 7.52.1 has been released, addressing the issue which
was present only in 7.52.0: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html

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Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

[Marius Bakke]

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ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:03:21PM +0000, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
>>>> in repository guix.
>>>> 
>>>> commit 42366b35c3f9f8dc8b059d3369b8196a4b832c18
>>>> Author: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
>>>> Date:   Wed Dec 21 14:56:34 2016 +0100
>>>> 
>>>>     gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586,9952,9953}].
>>>>     
>>>>     * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: Update to 7.52.0.
>>>>     (curl-7.51.0): Replace with ...
>>>>     (curl-7.52.0): ... this.
>>>
>>> ng0 pointed out this message from the curl maintainers:
>>>
>>> "Attention! We will release a patch update within a few days to fix a
>>> serious security problem found in curl 7.52.0. You may consider holding
>>> off until then."
>>>
>>> https://curl.haxx.se/download.html
>>
>> Thanks for catching that! I think that message must have appeared after
>> I downloaded it from there, difficult to miss that notice.
>>
>> The page was updated about 25 minutes after the commit was pushed:
>> $ curl -v https://curl.haxx.se/download.html >/dev/null
>> [...]
>> < Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:28:41 GMT
>>
>> It was reverted around 16:52 UTC. I hope those who upgraded in between
>> those five hours reads this list!
>
> Today cURL 7.52.1 has been released, addressing the issue which
> was present only in 7.52.0: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html

Thanks for the heads-up, I've pushed the update.

I added the CVE identifier for the 7.52.0 bug in the commit log since we
had it for a short while, and removed the WinCE specific identifiers
(thanks Leo!).

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