Subject: Re: [bug#28972] [PATCH] gnu: Remove unrar.

From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 19:07:43 +0000

Leo Famulari transcribed 1.4K bytes:
> This package is abandoned upstream and contains serious bugs:
> 
> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/329
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14120
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14121
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14122

Oh oh. Do we have another package providing the binar(ies) and function
unrar has?

> * gnu/packages/compression.scm (unrar): Remove variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/compression.scm | 18 ------------------
>  1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
> index a2bf3a186..c06c3c52e 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
> @@ -1285,24 +1285,6 @@ or junctions, and always follows hard links.")
>   archives from InstallShield installers.")
>      (license license:expat)))
>  
> -(define-public unrar
> -  (package
> -    (name "unrar")
> -    (version "0.0.1")
> -    (source (origin
> -              (method url-fetch)
> -              (uri (string-append
> -                    "http://download.gna.org/unrar/unrar-" version ".tar.gz"))
> -              (sha256
> -               (base32
> -                "1fgmjaxffj3shyxgy765jhxwz1cq88hk0fih1bsdzyvymyyz6mz7"))))
> -    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> -    (home-page "http://download.gna.org/unrar")
> -    (synopsis "RAR archive extraction tool")
> -    (description "Unrar is a simple command-line program to list and extract
> -RAR archives.")
> -    (license license:gpl2+)))
> -
>  (define-public zstd
>    (package
>      (name "zstd")
> -- 
> 2.14.3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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