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([2001:8b0:aba:5f3c:43cd:3a42:fe4b:e585]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-49808195136sm12783615e9.3.2026.07.31.23.41.20 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [OE-core][PATCH 0/2] coreutils: fix multiple CVEs From: Richard Purdie To: collin.funk1@gmail.com, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org, Leonid Iziumtsev Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:41:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2-9 MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:41:30 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/242477 On Fri, 2026-07-31 at 17:11 -0700, Collin Funk via lists.openembedded.org w= rote: > Leonid Iziumtsev said: >=20 > > This series backports upstream fixes to coreutils 9.11 to address > > multiple CVEs. > >=20 > > Leonid Iziumtsev (2): > > =C2=A0 coreutils: fix CVE-2026-56391 > > =C2=A0 coreutils: fix CVE-2026-56392 > >=20 > > =C2=A0.../coreutils/coreutils/CVE-2026-56391.patch=C2=A0 | 66 +++++++++= ++++++++++ > > =C2=A0.../coreutils/coreutils/CVE-2026-56392.patch=C2=A0 | 65 +++++++++= +++++++++ > > =C2=A0meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.11.bb |=C2=A0 2 + > > =C2=A03 files changed, 133 insertions(+) > > =C2=A0create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils/CVE-2026= -56391.patch > > =C2=A0create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils/CVE-2026= -56392.patch >=20 > Note that CVEs don't really have a security impact. I'm mildly annoyed > there were assigned. It seems that Afine's entire existence as a company > is sending LLM generated essays to maintainers, bogus a large portion of > the time. For the others, which have dubious security implications, they > file CVEs with exaggerations [1]. >=20 > Theoretically CVE-2026-56392 could allow problematic writes to the heap, > but that would require you to run it with untrusted slop as the input > and as arguments. If someone can do that on your system, they have much > better things to do. Sadly, I suspect this is becoming all the more common and I share your frustrations. We have an difficult position on whether to take things or not as we probably don't have the time/experience to tell in many cases and not taking a CVE fix means we'd get beaten over the head with the patch for ever more as "there is a security problem" :(. Cheers, Richard