It was not that simple to make these changes for core-updates, so I'm sending the patches for review.
For expat, I "re-fix" a bug that was fixed on master already. This bug-fix is actually reachable from the HEAD of core-updates, but for some reason doesn't exist at HEAD. According to MITRE the bug does affect all currently released versions of expat: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0718 I noticed a "left-over" patch for a bug that is apparently fixed in the version of expat on core-updates (2.1.1), so it is deleted: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1283 For libxslt, I update to the latest version and remove patches that are no longer needed. The timestamp issue was addressed upstream [0] and the bug has been fixed in this version. These patches were strangely no longer listed in 'gnu/local.mk'. [0] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=e57df303eca25a2a3f9e0625c29f4b20177858cc Leo Famulari (3): gnu: expat: Fix CVE-2016-0718. gnu: Remove unused patch. gnu: libxslt: Update to 1.1.29. gnu/local.mk | 1 - .../patches/expat-CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch | 42 -------------- gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2015-7995.patch | 29 ---------- .../patches/libxslt-remove-date-timestamps.patch | 66 ---------------------- gnu/packages/xml.scm | 9 ++- 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/expat-CVE-2015-1283-refix.patch delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-CVE-2015-7995.patch delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/libxslt-remove-date-timestamps.patch -- 2.8.3
