Subject: bug#46183: closed (Re: bug#46183: [PATCH 0/1] Update gcrypt [URGENT SECURITY ISSUE])

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:51:02 +0000

Your bug report

#46183: [PATCH 0/1] Update gcrypt [URGENT SECURITY ISSUE]

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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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’.

Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Update gcrypt [URGENT SECURITY ISSUE]
From: Ryan Prior <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:20:50 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Guix! Please review ASAP. This update fixes an exploitable heap overflow.

 ## Info

https://dev.gnupg.org/T5275

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q1/000455.html

Ryan Prior (1):
  gnu: libgcrypt: Update to 1.9.1.

 gnu/packages/gnupg.scm | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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