From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Cc: "dr.volker.zell@oracle.com" <dr.volker.zell@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] libwmf
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435337470.11720.23.camel@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433796174.10576.9.camel@cygwin.com>
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 15:42 -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> 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
>
> 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/
Are you still with us?
There has been further additions to that patchset for two more CVEs.
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-26 16:51 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
2015-06-26 16:51 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
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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