From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/heirloom-mailx: fix comment about ignore CVE-2014-7844
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:23:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r99yxgz.fsf@48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230828212221.2328358-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> (Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot's message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:22:19 +0200")
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> writes:
> In commit
> 15972770cf34ed0b0ba330e3cc42c04f1c80c3c8 ("package/heirloom-mailx:
> security bump to version 12.5-5 from Debian"), we added CVE-2014-7844
> in HEIRLOOM_MAILX_IGNORE_CVES, but with the wrong comment about it: it
> is a different patch in the Debian stack of patches that fixes
> it. Indeed the description of patch
> 0011-outof-Introduce-expandaddr-flag.patch is:
> =====================================================================
> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] outof: Introduce expandaddr flag
> Document that address expansion is disabled unless the expandaddr
> binary option is set.
> This has been assigned CVE-2014-7844 for BSD mailx, but it is not
> a vulnerability in Heirloom mailx because this feature was documented.
> =====================================================================
> See also https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=141875285203183&w=2 for
> details.
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Committed to 2023.02.x and 2023.05.x, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2023-08-28 21:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/heirloom-mailx: fix comment about ignore CVE-2014-7844 Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-08-28 21:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/heirloom-mailx: ignore CVE-2004-2771 Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-08-30 20:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle via buildroot
2023-09-14 8:23 ` Peter Korsgaard
2023-09-14 8:23 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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