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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Update imlib2 and patch against CVE-2016-4024
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 23:20:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn51ggem.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1461208313.git.leo@famulari.name> (Leo Famulari's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:19:52 -0400")

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> This applies from a patch from imlib2's source code repository.
>
> The change fixes an integer overflow on 32-bit machines. The upstream
> says:
>
> Security implications:
> *) for 32-bit machines: insufficient heap allocation and heap overwrite
> in many image loaders, with escalation potential to remote code
> execution;
> *) for 64-bit machines: it seems, no impact.
>
> In the patch file, there are references to imlib2's source repo and the
> CVE page on Mitre.
>
> I tested that feh and scrot still work with this change.

Looks good to me.  Please push.

     Thanks!
       Mark

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-23  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21  3:19 [PATCH 0/2] Update imlib2 and patch against CVE-2016-4024 Leo Famulari
2016-04-21  3:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: imlib2: Update to 1.4.8 Leo Famulari
2016-04-21  3:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: imlib2: Fix CVE-2016-4024 Leo Famulari
2016-04-23  3:20 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-04-23  4:01   ` [PATCH 0/2] Update imlib2 and patch against CVE-2016-4024 Leo Famulari

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