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Libreoffice CVE-2018-6871 [remote read of any local files]

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Message #11 received at 30414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org,Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>,30414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30414: Libreoffice CVE-2018-6871 [remote read of any local
 files]
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 02:27:44 +0100

On February 10, 2018 10:49:52 PM GMT+01:00, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> wrote:
>I'm trying to update LibreOffice to 5.4.5.1.
>
>This version of LibreOffice requires cppunit to be updated to 1.14.0.
>
>However, this new version of cppunit requires C++11.
>
>This is not the default C++ standard in GCC 5, so this update requires
>sprinkling "CXXFLAGS=-std=c++11" across several packages, AFAICT.

Could we package the newer version separately and override CXXFLAGS for libreoffice only?


>I'd rather try cherry-picking a patch from LibreOffice upstream but
>their Git repo is several gigabytes and it will take hours for me to
>download it.

I was digging through the GitHub mirror, but haven't been able to find the commit(s) in question:

https://github.com/LibreOffice/core

Thanks for working on it!

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