On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Nicoḷ Balzarotti wrote: > CVE-2021-3448 > > A flaw was found in dnsmasq in versions before 2.85. When configured to > use a specific server for a given network interface, dnsmasq uses a > fixed port while forwarding queries. An attacker on the network, able to > find the outgoing port used by dnsmasq, only needs to guess the random > transmission ID to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This > flaw makes a DNS Cache Poisoning attack much easier. The highest threat > from this vulnerability is to data integrity. > > guix ships dnsmasq@2.84. guix refresh shows version 2.85 is available, > and there are 43 dependent packages so this can go directly to master. > > All dependent packages (refresh -l) build fine except for > python2-libvirt@7.2.0, which is failing also on master > (libvirt-python requires Python >= 3.5 to build). Since it's a python2 > package and no other packages depends on it, can we just drop it? Yes, sounds good.