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Re: Expat regression fix for master branch
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: Expat regression fix for master branch |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:50:07 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:21:07AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 07:18:11PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 05:35:15PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > This patch applies an upstream patch for a regression caused by the fix
> > > for CVE-2016-0718.
> > >
> > > Apparently, the bug only manifests when building with -DXML_UNICODE,
> > > which I don't think our package does.
> >
> > Sebastian Pipping (the Expat maintainer) contacted me to recommend that
> > we apply the patch on the master branch.
> >
> > He says that the faulty code path can be reached even when XML_UNICODE
> > is not defined. Apparently, building with -DXML_UNICODE merely makes it
> > easier to reach the faulty code.
> >
> > I think we should take Sebastian's advice. What does everyone think?
>
>
> Seems to me that as the Expat maintainer he would know best.
I pushed the commit as b9bc6e842066b066ebdf9eaf75d41753598d75b5
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