Re: cracklib: Fix buffer overflow

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:36:46AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> This patch cherry-picks an upstream commit to fix a buffer overflow in
> cracklib. Please see the patch file for more information about the bug.

> From 62f8f1763ba1766e92e8dc05686bd9353eaf2ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:34:49 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: cracklib: Fix buffer overflow.
> 
> * gnu/packages/patches/cracklib-fix-buffer-overflow.patch: New file.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
> * gnu/packages/password-utils.scm (cracklib)[source]: Use it.

I forgot about this patch.

Debian applied it:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-cracklib/pkg-cracklib.git/tree/debian/patches/overflow-processing-long-words.patch

I'll push it today if I hear no objections.

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