From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] brotli: update to version 1.0.7
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:38:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ld95464.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181026141425.GB4330@momiji> (Adrian Perez de Castro's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:14:25 +0300")
>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com> writes:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:01:21 +0200, Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@igalia.com> writes:
>>
>> > The new version, among other changes, includes important fixes
>> > for unaligned memory access on ARM (both for 32 and 64-bit), as well
>> > as performance improvements and build fixes.
>>
>> Does this mean that we should backport this version bump to the current
>> LTS release (2018.02.x) as well then?
> This is probably a good idea. I was reluctant to suggest it from the get-go
> because there is no mention to security updates in the release notes, but
> the unaligned memory access will cause crashes, which on could argue can be
> exploited for DoS attacks ?. Also, it's a point release so the API/ABI of
> the library remains the same, and the risk of breaking things is minimal.
> So yes, I think it's a good idea to backport the update to the LTS version.
Ok, thanks - I'll cherry pick it next time I sync LTS with master.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-26 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-24 23:38 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] brotli: update to version 1.0.7 Adrian Perez de Castro
2018-10-26 10:01 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-10-26 11:14 ` Adrian Perez de Castro
2018-10-26 11:38 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2018-11-13 22:47 ` Peter Korsgaard
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