From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 27749@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#27749] [PATCH] gnu: heimdal: Update to 7.4.0 [fixes CVE-2017-11103].
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:57:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vajbchiv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sm03zyd.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2017 23:31:38 +0200")
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> Hi Alex,
>
>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 07:04:53PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>>> Here is the updated patch:
>>>
>>> From 33ae64ead2031e7707639302977d31487e992660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:01:47 +0800
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: heimdal: Fix CVE-2017-{6594,11103}.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/patches/heimdal-CVE-2017-6594.patch,
>>> gnu/packages/patches/heimdal-CVE-2017-11103.patch: New files.
>>> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add them.
>>> * gnu/packages/kerberos.scm (heimdal)[source]: Use them.
>>
>> Thanks! I recreated the commit since the patch no longer applied to
>> 'gnu/local.mk' and pushed as 81c35029d4ee4fa7cd517998844229a514b35531.
>>
>> I'm leaving this bug open for now so we can discuss the update.
>
> As mentioned before, the new release bundles a bunch of third party
> libraries. It is not clear to me if *all* things under “lib” are
> external libraries or if some of them are part of the source code of
> heimdal.
>
No, I don't think so. At least the heimdal/ subdirectory[0] should
contain non-third-party code.
> Can we learn from the Debian package for heimdal here?
>
Good suggestion, I think the Build-Depends field in [1] will help. For
exmaples, we should not use the bundled sqlite.
> I think we really ought to update from the very old version we are using
> currently.
>
Agree, our version is even older than the one in Debian old stable.
> --
> Ricardo
>
> GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC
> https://elephly.net
[0]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/heimdal.git/tree/lib.
[1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/heimdal.git/tree/debian/control
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-19 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-18 8:26 [bug#27749] [PATCH] gnu: heimdal: Update to 7.4.0 [fixes CVE-2017-11103] Alex Vong
2017-07-18 15:49 ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-18 15:51 ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-18 15:53 ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-19 9:22 ` Alex Vong
2017-07-19 11:04 ` Alex Vong
2017-07-20 19:51 ` Leo Famulari
2017-10-18 21:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-19 14:57 ` Alex Vong [this message]
2017-10-21 9:52 ` Alex Vong
2017-11-26 22:59 ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-10 8:04 ` bug#27749: " 宋文武
2018-06-25 3:16 ` [bug#27749] " Alex Vong
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