From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cracklib: Fix buffer overflow
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:44:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3yiy4hu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170110203331.GA9807@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:33:31 -0500")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:36:46AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> This patch cherry-picks an upstream commit to fix a buffer overflow in
>> cracklib. Please see the patch file for more information about the bug.
>
>> From 62f8f1763ba1766e92e8dc05686bd9353eaf2ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:34:49 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: cracklib: Fix buffer overflow.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/patches/cracklib-fix-buffer-overflow.patch: New file.
>> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
>> * gnu/packages/password-utils.scm (cracklib)[source]: Use it.
>
> I forgot about this patch.
>
> Debian applied it:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-cracklib/pkg-cracklib.git/tree/debian/patches/overflow-processing-long-words.patch
>
> I'll push it today if I hear no objections.
Sounds good, thanks for the heads-up.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-10 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 15:36 cracklib: Fix buffer overflow Leo Famulari
2016-09-20 9:32 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-09-20 17:43 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-10 20:33 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-10 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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