Re: [SECURITY] libwmf

["Dr. Volker Zell" <dr.volker.zell@oracle.com>]

>>>>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:

    > On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 17:56 +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
    >> >>>>> 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)

    > Understood, I've uploaded 0.2.8.4-15 with the complete patchset.

Thanks
    
    > BTW, tzcode has been a bit neglected as of late, and it's the sort of
    > package that really needs to be kept timely (forgive the pun).  Would
    > you mind if we took over maintainership?

Just go ahead...
    
    > --
    > Yaakov

Ciao
  Volker