From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
binutils@sourceware.org,
"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [CVE] zlib (< 1.2.12) memory corruption
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:30:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6a0932b-8573-1fdf-56c7-a3a34c86ca9c@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a271c96-047b-1cd3-54c9-e103421602d3@redhat.com>
Hi Nick,
On 4/8/22 14:36, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
>> There is a CVE [1] for zlib < 1.2.12 (released march 27th).
>>
>> GCC currently uses zlib 1.2.11, and binutils-gdb imports the zlib
>> directory from GCC. The recommendation is to get it updated to 1.2.12,
>> which contains the proper fix [2].
>
> I am all for updating the binutils-gdb copy of zlib. I will wait a
> couple of
> days to see if anyone else has any comments or concerns, but if not, then I
> will apply the patches myself.
I did a quick check and there seems to be some differences between gcc's
zlib subdir and binutils-gdb's zlib subdir. I think there has been some
fixes that we may have to port over from our current zlib subdir. I
tried simply replacing the subdir, but that didn't work right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-12 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-05 13:56 Luis Machado
2022-04-08 13:36 ` Nick Clifton
2022-04-12 7:30 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2022-04-12 15:27 ` Nick Clifton
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