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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [git commit] package/dmidecode: bump to version 3.5
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:55:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edjm5itv.fsf@48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230828235935.4dcd6b5a@windsurf> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:59:35 +0200")

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> writes:

 > Hello Peter,
 > On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:48:40 +0200
 > Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:

 >> commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=c97f27283b36ffc39dfb6223caee6055997b3234
 >> branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
 >> 
 >> For change log, see:
 >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dmidecode.git/tree/NEWS?h=dmidecode-3-5
 >> 
 >> Note: this patch also adds a comment about pgp signature verification in
 >> the hash file.
 >> 
 >> Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
 >> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

 > 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.

 > So getting dmidecode 3.5 in Buildroot 2023.02 and 2023.05 is probably OK.

Yes, I'll do that. Thanks for the heads up!

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2023-08-29  9:08     ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot

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