From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] libwmf
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1433796174.10576.9.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433492253.14544.12.camel@cygwin.com>
On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 03:17 -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Dr. Volker,
>
> A security vulnerability has been made public for libwmf:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1227243
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libwmf.git/plain/libwmf-0.2.8.4-CVE-2015-0848.patch
Actually, it's worse than that. Despite configuring with --with-sys-gd,
libwmf is still being built with the bundled libgd (which has either an
older or custom API) instead of the system one. Therefore, practically
the entire patchset is required to fix all known vulnerabilities:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libwmf.git/
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-08 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-05 8:17 Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-06-08 20:42 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2015-06-26 16:51 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-06-29 15:56 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2015-07-09 20:09 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-07-10 5:43 ` Dr. Volker Zell
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