Re: Chicken security bugs [was Re: address@hidden: Irregex packages should be updated to 0.9.6]]

[Kei Kebreau]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 08:59:59PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:23:43PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> >> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 02:20:37PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> >> >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: chicken: Fix CVE-2016-{6830,6831}.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> *
>> >> >> gnu/packages/patches/chicken-CVE-2016-6830+CVE-2016-6831.patch:
>> >> >> New file.
>> >> >> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Use it.
>> >> >> * gnu/packages/scheme.scm (chicken)[source]: Use it.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thank you for looking into this!
>> >> >
>> >> > Something like this patch is in CHICKEN 4.11.1:
>> >> >
>> >> > https://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commitdiff;h=0d20426c6da0f116606574dadadaa878b96a68ea
>> >> >
>> >> > And there is a patch for the IrRegex bug after the latest tag:
>> >> >
>> >> > https://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c419f18138c17767754b36d3b706cd71a55350a
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you try updating CHICKEN and applying that IrRegex patch?
>> >> 
>> >> I can try, but updating to CHICKEN 4.11.1 requires a recent CHICKEN
>> >> binary due to its build system requirements. Do we have any objection to
>> >> bootstrapping CHICKEN 4.11.1 from version 4.11.0?
>> >
>> > Interesting!
>> >
>> > I don't see why we shouldn't use 4.11.0 to bootstrap 4.11.1.
>> >
>> > Changing the build system like that seems unusual for a minor point
>> > release, and I don't see it documented in the 4.11.1 NEWS file:
>> >
>> > https://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=545d68583c8375bd5243ec07a53faff9ec1685a3;hb=116f42e7a3eab2a02b853fd038af3cb3aadad5c3
>> >
>> 
>> I must have phrased that too vaguely. It's just a "building from release
>> tarball vs from git checkout" thing, documented in the README file of
>> both releases. I've been having trouble with the seemingly identical
>> test suite using the attached WIP patch. Perhaps the dreary wheather is
>> clouding my thoughts.
>
> How about using a development snapshot?
>
> http://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/

Ah, this works excellently. Thanks for the pointer! The two attached
patches should do the trick.

0001-gnu-chicken-Update-to-4.11.1.patch
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0001-gnu-chicken-Fix-CVE-2016-6830-6831.patch
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