From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] libarchive: Fix CVE-2016-1541
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:44:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3d8wvxg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1462911976.git.leo@famulari.name> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 10 May 2016 16:29:08 -0400")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> There is a buffer overflow in libarchive, CVE-2016-1541 [0]. According
> to MITRE description, it "allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
> code via crafted entry-size values in a ZIP archive."
>
> Yikes!
>
> This patch applies the upstream patch [1].
>
> Requesting your review, since soooo many packages depend on libarchive.
LGTM.
> I will follow this commit with an "ungrafting" commit on core-updates.
Cool!
Thank you!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-11 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-10 20:29 [PATCH 0/1] libarchive: Fix CVE-2016-1541 Leo Famulari
2016-05-10 20:29 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: " Leo Famulari
2016-05-11 13:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-05-12 1:55 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Leo Famulari
2016-05-12 5:22 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-05-13 6:45 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-13 18:16 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-05-14 17:26 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-05-12 7:24 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-05-15 6:45 ` Leo Famulari
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