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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: brotli packages: security update
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 17:31:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7e1dd12-7079-6b20-da7b-e3bc58a7cb9e@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201009005909.A944.50F79699@gmail.com>

The maintainer is Yaakov.  Do you want to adopt it and do the update?

Ken

On 10/8/2020 11:59 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Brotli 1.0.9 contains a security update, which fixes an "integer overflow" problem [1].
> 
> Please update it.
> 
> 
> A cygport file for updating is placed at
>    https://github.com/cygwin-lem/brotli-cygport/tree/n_1.0.9-1 .
> 
> 
> Test packages generated from it are placed at
>    https://cygwin-lem.github.io/brotli-cygport/ ,
> or
>    https://github.com/cygwin-lem/brotli-cygport/tree/n_1.0.9-1_gh-pages .
> 
> 
> But the cygport file is not tested under Cygwin CI AppVeyor, yet.
> So BUILD_REQUIRES in brotli.cygport might be insufficient.
> 
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/master/README.md
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lem
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-08 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08 15:59 Lemures Lemniscati
2020-10-08 21:31 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2020-10-09  8:49   ` Lemures Lemniscati
2020-10-09 18:59     ` Ken Brown

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