From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [git commit] package/dmidecode: bump to version 3.5
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 11:08:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230829110841.1bcf9128@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edjm5itv.fsf@48ers.dk>
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:55:08 +0200
Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:
> > FYI: this is a security bump, as it fixes
> > https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30630. "Dmidecode before 3.5
> > allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This has security relevance
> > because, for example, execution of Dmidecode via Sudo is plausible."
>
> OK. Somewhat unlikely threat model expecting people to run dmidecode
> -dump-bin on untrusted machines in directories with other files, but oh well.
Yeah, but the CVE pops up in my list of CVEs to fix :-)
Thomas
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2023-06-27 5:48 [Buildroot] [git commit] package/dmidecode: bump to version 3.5 Peter Korsgaard
2023-08-28 21:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-08-29 8:55 ` Peter Korsgaard
2023-08-29 9:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
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