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From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr.volker.zell@oracle.com>
To: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com,
	       "dr.volker.zell@oracle.com" <dr.volker.zell@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] libwmf
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vriv381a33vq.fsf@VZELL-LAP.de.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435337470.11720.23.camel@cygwin.com> (Yaakov Selkowitz's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:51:10 -0500")

>>>>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:

    > 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?  

Yes, but NO time right now (plus upcoming vacation)

Ciao
  Volker
  

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-29 15:56 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
2015-06-29 15:56     ` Dr. Volker Zell [this message]
2015-07-09 20:09       ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2015-07-10  5:43         ` Dr. Volker Zell

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