Subject: Re: [bug#27769] [PATCH] gnu: pcre: Update replacement to 8.41 [fixes CVE-2017-{7244, 7245, 7246}].

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:35:28 +0200

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/pcre.scm (pcre)[replacement]: Update to pcre-8.41.
> (pcre/fixed): Replace with ...
> (pcre-8.41): ... new variable.

LGTM!

> -              (patches (search-patches "pcre-CVE-2017-7186.patch"))))))

Should we remove this patch as well?

For ‘core-updates’, I suggest we keep 8.41 it as a graft.  WDYT?

Thank you!

Ludo’.