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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: ntfs-3g: Fix CVE-2017-0358.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:30:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a89usuh0.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f4yq3jv.fsf@openmailbox.org>

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Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 11:39:42PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>>> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > Reviewers, how does this patch look to you?
>>>> 
>>>> AFAIU from CVE-2017-0358, ntfs-3g is only vulnerable when installed
>>>> setuid root, which is not the case on guix.
>>>> 
>>>> FWIW Debian do not carry this patch, but have fixed the CVE according to
>>>> the changelog. So I doubt this patch is necessary.
>>>
>>> There have been a couple security-related bugs publicized recently that
>>> are only dangerous when the software is installed setuid root.
>>>
>>> Although we don't do that by default, system administrators can do it on
>>> GuixSD. I also think that Guix is valuable as a distribution mechanism
>>> of free source code, and we should fix bugs for that use case.
>>>
>>> So, I was thinking that we should fix these bugs unless they require
>>> grafting, and then we should fix them in core-updates.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> That does make a lot of sense. Reading up on execl(3), it looks like
>> this patch does the right thing and can't hurt even when not setuid.
>>
>> Mind=changed! :P 
>
> Are we all agreed on pushing this change?

I agree with Leo that we should try to cover for all use cases of
software from Guix, so this change LGTM.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-09 21:33 [PATCH] gnu: ntfs-3g: Fix CVE-2017-0358 Kei Kebreau
2017-02-09 22:39 ` Marius Bakke
2017-02-09 22:43   ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-09 23:07     ` Marius Bakke
2017-02-10  0:42       ` Kei Kebreau
2017-02-10  1:30         ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-02-10  3:28           ` Kei Kebreau

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