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From:
Steve Peters
Date:
December 9, 2005 13:43
Subject:
Re: sprintf patches
Message ID:
20051209214331.GA16388@mccoy.peters.homeunix.org
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:06:56PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:24:41PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:32:37PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > >OK. Attached are initial versions of just the sprintf patches. Given that
> > >Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni has uploaded the current (fixed) Sys::SysLog to
> > >CPAN, I'm not sure whether it's easier to recommend upgrading by installing
> > >that, rather than by issuing a patch.
> > >
> > >Note that I don't know the CAN number, so the patch doesn't have the correct
> > >text yet. Is there a CAN number?
> >
> > This has been assigned CVE-2005-3962
> > (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3962).
> >
> > Note: use the "CVE" rather than "CAN" prefix
> > (http://www.cve.mitre.org/cve/renumber.html).
>
> OK. Edited. All apply cleanly, but so far the test machine has only completed
> the build for 5.8.7. (Working backwards).
>
> Currently I'm very limited in what architectures I have access to - it would
> be nice to have some feedback on whether they work perfectly on any OS other
> than x86 FreeBSD 5.4 before I upload them to CPAN. (Given that CPAN only
> gives me 1 shot at a name)
>
> In particular non gcc and non Unix would be interesting.
I'll get a Linux gcc-4.0, Linux Sun cc, and OpenBSD, at least, started this
evening. If no one else volunteers, I'll look into Mac OS X, Cygwin,
and Win32 VC++ .NET tomorrow.
Steve Peters
steve@fisharerojo.org
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