GNU bug report logs - #30415
Unzip CVE-2018-1000031 and others

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:58:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 30415-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 30415-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30415: Unzip CVE-2018-1000031 and others
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:51:35 -0500

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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 09:01:44AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Hi Leo,
> 
> > The researcher's advisory recommends building UnZip with FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > to reduce the impact of the bug. The attached patch does that.
> […]
> > +                 ;; Mitigate CVE-2018-1000035, an exploitable buffer overflow.
> > +                 ;; This environment variable is recommended in 'unix/Makefile'
> > +                 ;; for passing flags to the C compiler.
> > +                 (setenv "LOCAL_UNZIP" "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1")
> > +                 #t))))))))
> 
> This looks good to me.  Thank you!

Thanks, pushed as 77737e035491112a1e9c7d9a0e6f1e0397a4f930

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