On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> wrote:
> * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> [160327 23:00]:
>> Here's an updated patch which contains the actual changes that upstream
>> committed to the git repository to close the upstream bug 12118 [1].
>>
>> Would be possible to cherry-pick this fix from upstream until the
>> changes have been backported to ruby2.3?
>
> We're waiting for a whole list of more important issues to be
> backported to the 2.3 branch (there haven't been any backports or
> point releases so far).
>
> I really don't want to add another patch except for critical issues
> (and that are likely to be applied to 2.3) at this point - so ... No.
"tail call overwriting the (non-existing) argument" sounds like a security
issue that may be exploitable, even on non-m68k.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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