From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] tcpdump: drop unneeded security patches
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:37:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <560E7A6F.2060508@zacarias.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8eab1f5310d5dac8ab6e17bc5a0e4fdf5d3017ad.1443699935.git.baruch@tkos.co.il>
On 01/10/15 08:45, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Version 4.7.4 of tcpdump is not vulnerable to these issues according to:
>
> https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8767
> https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8768
> https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8769
>
> The tcpdump commit log seems to indicate that these issues were fixes in a
> different way in the following commits:
>
> CVE-2014-8767: 4038f83ebf654804829b258dde5e0a508c1c2003
> CVE-2014-8768: 9255c9b05b0a04b8d89739b3efcb9f393a617fe9
> CVE-2014-8769: 9ed7ddb48fd557dc993e73f22a50dda6cedf4df7
>
> Just drop these patches.
>
> Cc: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
However i don't like upstream policy regarding vulns, there's no direct
mention of these CVEs anywhere, it's very vague and hard to track.
Regards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-02 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-01 11:45 [Buildroot] [PATCH] tcpdump: drop unneeded security patches Baruch Siach
2015-10-02 12:37 ` Gustavo Zacarias [this message]
2015-10-02 14:34 ` Peter Korsgaard
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