ng0 <n...@libertad.pw> writes:
> Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 02:03:21PM +0000, Marius Bakke wrote:
>>>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
>>>> in repository guix.
>>>>
>>>> commit 42366b35c3f9f8dc8b059d3369b8196a4b832c18
>>>> Author: Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com>
>>>> Date: Wed Dec 21 14:56:34 2016 +0100
>>>>
>>>> gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes
>>>> CVE-2016-{9586,9952,9953}].
>>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[replacement]: Update to 7.52.0.
>>>> (curl-7.51.0): Replace with ...
>>>> (curl-7.52.0): ... this.
>>>
>>> ng0 pointed out this message from the curl maintainers:
>>>
>>> "Attention! We will release a patch update within a few days to fix a
>>> serious security problem found in curl 7.52.0. You may consider holding
>>> off until then."
>>>
>>> https://curl.haxx.se/download.html
>>
>> Thanks for catching that! I think that message must have appeared after
>> I downloaded it from there, difficult to miss that notice.
>>
>> The page was updated about 25 minutes after the commit was pushed:
>> $ curl -v https://curl.haxx.se/download.html >/dev/null
>> [...]
>> < Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:28:41 GMT
>>
>> It was reverted around 16:52 UTC. I hope those who upgraded in between
>> those five hours reads this list!
>
> Today cURL 7.52.1 has been released, addressing the issue which
> was present only in 7.52.0: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.htmlThanks for the heads-up, I've pushed the update. I added the CVE identifier for the 7.52.0 bug in the commit log since we had it for a short while, and removed the WinCE specific identifiers (thanks Leo!).
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