Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

[Marius Bakke]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:03:21PM +0000, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>> 
>> commit 42366b35c3f9f8dc8b059d3369b8196a4b832c18
>> Author: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Wed Dec 21 14:56:34 2016 +0100
>> 
>>     gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes 
>> CVE-2016-{9586,9952,9953}].
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: Update to 7.52.0.
>>     (curl-7.51.0): Replace with ...
>>     (curl-7.52.0): ... this.
>
> ng0 pointed out this message from the curl maintainers:
>
> "Attention! We will release a patch update within a few days to fix a
> serious security problem found in curl 7.52.0. You may consider holding
> off until then."
>
> https://curl.haxx.se/download.html

Thanks for catching that! I think that message must have appeared after
I downloaded it from there, difficult to miss that notice.

The page was updated about 25 minutes after the commit was pushed:
$ curl -v https://curl.haxx.se/download.html >/dev/null
[...]
< Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:28:41 GMT

It was reverted around 16:52 UTC. I hope those who upgraded in between
those five hours reads this list!

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