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Subject: Re: binutils CVEs
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:23:56 +0200
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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> On September 17, 2017 9:25:11 PM GMT+03:00, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmai=
l.com> wrote:
>>>Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>>>
>>>> There's a large number of CVEs against binutils@2.28. Gentoo=C2=B9 has=
 a
>>>nice
>>>> long list of the CVEs, and I've put together a patch to graft a
>>>> replacement, but I'm getting grafting errors:
>>>> ERROR: replacement length differs from the original length
>>>"h9nqlf0c82c1sds4yzs60k7pm4f37si2-binutils-2.28"
>>>"wl5dg3dnqvk2v2ahh5iadnv1s34rsbb6-binutils-2.28.1"
>>>
>>>This is because the replacement name is two bytes longer (.1).
>>>
>>>To fix it, the version field of the replacement must be set to
>>>something
>>>with equal length of "2.28".  I suppose we can use just that and
>>>hard-code the source URL?
>>
>> That is the obvious solution, but I don't like it. It does make it harde=
r to verify that it's grafted correctly but I guess it'll just have to be t=
hat way.
>
> Maybe "2281".  Or "fixd".

Or =E2=80=9C2.2A=E2=80=9D?

Ludo=E2=80=99.