From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NSS test failure on armhf
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:14:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760hyu6gd.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tmuuaox.fsf@fastmail.com>
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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>>> It turns out that the bug fix in 3.30.1 is critical: it fixes
>>> CVE-2017-5461, a potential remote code execution vulnerability. 3.30.2
>>> has since been released, so I'm currently testing it and will push an
>>> update to it soon. Any issues on armhf will need to be dealt with in
>>> another way.
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> I checked this. The upstream 3.30 branch[0] contains a fix, but it was
>> not picked to the 3.30.2 release which only contains certificate
>> changes[1].
>>
>> Squashing these two commits into one should fix the problem (the first
>> fix was incomplete[2]):
>>
>> https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/802ec96a8dd1
>> https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/00b2cc2b33c7
>
> Here is a patch that updates to 3.30.1 and disables the b64 test.
>
> I'm building it on x86_64 now, but think it should be safe to push.
>
> What do you think?
>
> From 7f1a8eda567edb851e0f2cd1f08c6ac07e8a45cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:36:21 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: nss: Update to 3.30.1 [fixes CVE-2017-5461].
>
> * gnu/packages/patches/nss-disable-b64_unittest.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (nss): Update to 3.30.1.
> [source]: Use it.
This built successfully on x86_64. Here's an excerpt from the log:
'B64EncodeDecodeTest: DISABLED_LongFakeDecTest1' SKIPPED
'B64EncodeDecodeTest: DISABLED_LongFakeEncDecTest1' SKIPPED
'B64EncodeDecodeTest: DISABLED_LongFakeEncDecTest2' SKIPPED
Are you currently building a version of this patch on armhf? If not I'd
like to push it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-20 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-17 21:23 NSS test failure on armhf Marius Bakke
2017-04-17 21:52 ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-17 22:35 ` Marius Bakke
2017-04-20 18:39 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-04-20 18:49 ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-20 19:28 ` Marius Bakke
2017-04-20 19:43 ` Marius Bakke
2017-04-20 21:14 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-04-20 21:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-04-20 22:18 ` Marius Bakke
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