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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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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