Re: curl security update

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> There are some new bugs disclosed in curl:
> https://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html
>
> Grafting the new version seems like the right approach to me when I
> consider libcurl's ABI compatibility policy:
> https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/abi.html
>
> Thoughts?

Looks good to me!  Please push.

     Thanks,
      Mark
     

> From ef6ae3732facb1eba77e82c6a6066832784bca5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:13:09 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: curl: Replace with 7.50.1 [fixes
>  CVE-2016-{3739,4802,5419,5420,5421].
>
> * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: New field.
> (curl-7.50.1): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/curl.scm | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/curl.scm b/gnu/packages/curl.scm
> index 222910b..a250bb1 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/curl.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/curl.scm
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>  (define-public curl
>    (package
>     (name "curl")
> +   (replacement curl-7.50.1)
>     (version "7.47.0")
>     (source (origin
>              (method url-fetch)
> @@ -123,3 +124,16 @@ tunneling, and so on.")
>     (license (license:non-copyleft "file://COPYING"
>                                    "See COPYING in the distribution."))
>     (home-page "http://curl.haxx.se/")))
> +
> +(define curl-7.50.1
> +  (package
> +    (inherit curl)
> +    (source
> +      (let ((version "7.50.1"))
> +        (origin
> +          (method url-fetch)
> +          (uri (string-append "https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-"
> +                              version ".tar.lzma"))
> +          (sha256
> +           (base32
> +            "0qc3qp3h18v24irzw7dgg1jf39v4hnz8irv83v9lbn9rxzrpdcdj")))))))