[Buildroot] [PATCH] glibc: security bump to latest 2.27 branch

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue May 29 11:59:46 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Baruch" == Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> writes:

 > Fixed issues are listed in the 2.27 branch NEWS file:
 >   CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
 >   architecture could corrupt memory.  Reported by Max Horn.

 >   CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
 >   result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow.  Reported by Alexey
 >   Izbyshev.

 >   CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
 >   architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
 >   overflow.  Reported by Andreas Schwab.

Thanks, that was still on my todo list. Do we need a similar update for
the 2.26 branch for 2018.02.x?


 > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
 > ---
 >  package/glibc/glibc.hash | 2 +-
 >  package/glibc/glibc.mk   | 2 +-
 >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

 > diff --git a/package/glibc/glibc.hash b/package/glibc/glibc.hash
 > index f19fa92af4cd..035ee810c7d7 100644
 > --- a/package/glibc/glibc.hash
 > +++ b/package/glibc/glibc.hash
 > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 >  # Locally calculated (fetched from Github)
 > -sha256  a74489d14f4017bee6a6c6fe76f1de0dbf7d66c8695116de5aadd141c4757892     glibc-glibc-2.27.tar.gz
 > +sha256  33189b3f10c88730a1f686fac794bc01f31765f12ffd75bc5e8a0f2a690d217a     glibc-6c99e37f6fb640a50a3113b2dbee5d5389843c1e.tar.gz
 >  # Locally calculated (fetched from Github)
 >  sha256  ddc63360393ab88ab6a4a0c81d33481f34c5a9ebd758eec2e6bb35385058b4cb     glibc-arc-2018.03-rc2.tar.gz
 
 > diff --git a/package/glibc/glibc.mk b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
 > index 717182b05256..e026c08d16f4 100644
 > --- a/package/glibc/glibc.mk
 > +++ b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
 > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ GLIBC_SITE = $(call github,foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors,glibc,$(GLIBC_VE
 >  else
 >  # Generate version string using:
 >  #   git describe --match 'glibc-*' --abbrev=40 origin/release/MAJOR.MINOR/master
 > -GLIBC_VERSION = glibc-2.27
 > +GLIBC_VERSION = 6c99e37f6fb640a50a3113b2dbee5d5389843c1e

Can you use the format as described in the comment just above?

git describe --match 'glibc-*' --abbrev=40 origin/release/2.27/master
glibc-2.27-57-g6c99e37f6fb640a50a3113b2dbee5d5389843c1e

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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