Subject: Re: bug#46183: [PATCH 0/1] Update gcrypt [URGENT SECURITY ISSUE]
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Guillaume Le Vaillant <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Ryan Prior <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:50:49 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Guillaume Le Vaillant <[email-masked]> skribis:

> According to the news at https://gnupg.org:
>
> Libgcrypt 1.9.1 released (2021-01-29)   important
>
> Unfortunately we introduced a severe bug in Libgcrypt 1.9.0 released 10 days ago.
> If you already started to use version 1.9.0 please update immediately to 1.9.1.
>
> Currently the master and staging branch are using libgcrypt 1.8.5 and
> core-updates is using 1.8.7. These versions don't have the critical bug
> as it was introduced in version 1.9.0. So I think updating libgcrypt on
> master is not an emergency, we just have to remember to never use
> version 1.9.0.

Indeed.  So closing this bug.  That said, we can update libgcrypt in
‘core-updates’.

Ludo’.