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Re: binutils CVEs
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: binutils CVEs |
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 18:31:32 +0000 |
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On September 17, 2017 9:25:11 PM GMT+03:00, Marius Bakke <address@hidden> wrote:
>Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
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>> There's a large number of CVEs against address@hidden Gentoo¹ has a
>nice
>> long list of the CVEs, and I've put together a patch to graft a
>> replacement, but I'm getting grafting errors:
>> ERROR: replacement length differs from the original length
>"h9nqlf0c82c1sds4yzs60k7pm4f37si2-binutils-2.28"
>"wl5dg3dnqvk2v2ahh5iadnv1s34rsbb6-binutils-2.28.1"
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>This is because the replacement name is two bytes longer (.1).
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>To fix it, the version field of the replacement must be set to
>something
>with equal length of "2.28". I suppose we can use just that and
>hard-code the source URL?
That is the obvious solution, but I don't like it. It does make it harder to
verify that it's grafted correctly but I guess it'll just have to be that way.
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