Re: [OE-core][scarthgap][PATCH] perl: link to the system zlib instead of a vendored copy

[Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>]

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On Thu, 2026-05-14 at 03:33 -0700, Sudhir Dumbhare -X (sudumbha - E
INFOCHIPS PRIVATE LIMITED at Cisco) wrote:
> From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
> 
> The perl module Compress-Raw-Zlib defaults to using a vendored copy of
> the zlib sources which has a number of CVEs.  A newer version of perl
> updates this to zlib 1.3.2 to resolve them, but we should be linking to
> our zlib recipe instead of the vendored code.
> 
> This mitigates CVE-2026-4176 so mark it as not appropriate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> (cherry picked from commit bf515229043685d4f00c965eb3e0236c37b6b403)
> Signed-off-by: Sudhir Dumbhare <sudumbha@cisco.com>

Hi Sudhir,

The description in the commit message applies to Perl 5.42.0 in our
master branch, have you confirmed this this is also valid for Perl
5.38.x on Scarthgap?

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker


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