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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Léo Le Bouter" <lle-bout@zaclys.net>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: glib@2.62.6 is vulnerable to CVE-2021-27218 and CVE-2021-27219
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:28:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im5ygkkv.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2fa8c4679e127f5e8a3e1dd4fa7d6ad73b1d83d3.camel@zaclys.net>

Hi Léo,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> writes:
> Upstream does not provide fixes for the 2.62.x series so we need to
> backport ourselves.

One does not follow from the other.  Besides upstream, there exist other
competent organizations (such as Debian, Red Hat, and Ubuntu) that
provide security support for their stable OS releases, and publish
backported fixes as part of that work.

> I would rather switch to upstream-supported version (2.66.x or later)
> as backporting patches does not appear sustainable for us, we already
> have enough on our plate.

As I wrote in another thread: I'll backport the fixes for CVE-2021-27218
and CVE-2021-27219 to our version of Glib, based on the backports
already published by Ubuntu for Glib 2.56.4 and 2.64.4.

     Regards,
       Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-11  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-10 23:44 glib@2.62.6 is vulnerable to CVE-2021-27218 and CVE-2021-27219 Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-11  8:28 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-03-11 11:23   ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-11 11:46     ` Léo Le Bouter

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