From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH next 2/2] bash: bump version to 4.4
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:40:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161129134029.25a9a847@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161129122404.59676-2-Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
Hello,
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:24:04 +0000, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Vicente Olivert Riera <Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>
> ---
> Notes to maintainer
> - This new version contains a small security fix. From
> http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS:
>
> "Shells running as root no longer inherit PS4 from the environment,
> closing a security hole involving PS4 expansion performing command
> substitution."
>
> However, taking into account that bash is a critical package and the
> 2016.11 release is very close I've marked this patch as "next".
"is a critical package" or "is *NOT* a critical package" ? If it's a
critical package like you suggest, then perhaps we want it in master
anyway ?
Thanks,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-29 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-29 12:24 [Buildroot] [PATCH next 1/2] readline: bump version to 7.0 Vicente Olivert Riera
2016-11-29 12:24 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH next 2/2] bash: bump version to 4.4 Vicente Olivert Riera
2016-11-29 12:40 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-11-29 12:59 ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2016-11-30 11:02 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-11-29 12:37 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH next 1/2] readline: bump version to 7.0 Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-29 12:56 ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2016-11-29 14:23 ` Vicente Olivert Riera
2016-11-30 11:01 ` Peter Korsgaard
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