From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Léo Le Bouter" <lle-bout@zaclys.net>,
"Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bsdiff package vulnerable to CVE-2020-14315
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:31:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im5ts9qo.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <821daed43b3d25821af5f9d3e634f38f710d7d9a.camel@zaclys.net>
Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> writes:
> On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 12:32 -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> Well, we could also just remove this package. It sounds like it is
>> not
>> supported on Linux. Does it offer some unique functionality?
>
> I would advocate for removal of the package, or at least warning about
> absence of security patches for security issues at install/show time.
For the record, Léo removed this package in commit
373c7b5791acd8f377455be47260948b843dd5db on the 'master' branch.
Mark
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-14 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 8:49 bsdiff package vulnerable to CVE-2020-14315 Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-10 17:32 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-10 20:33 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-14 21:31 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
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