Changeset 934b2a7 in clfs-sysroot for BOOK/final-system/common


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Timestamp:
Nov 26, 2006, 5:40:04 PM (18 years ago)
Author:
Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>
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master
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b47f947
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79404e1
Message:

Updated Gzip to 2.3.6.

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  • BOOK/final-system/common/gzip.xml

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    2626    <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
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    28     <para os="p1">The following patch fixes two security vulnerabilities in Gzip:
    29     a path traversal bug when using the <option>-N</option> option
    30     (CAN-2005-1228), and a race condition in the file permission restore
    31     code (CAN-2005-0998):</para>
    32 
    33 <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gzip-security_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
    34 
    35     <para os="s1">The <command>gzexe</command> command calls <command>tail</command>
    36      with options that do not conform to newer versions of the POSIX standard,
    37      and therefore are not accepted by current versions of Coreutils. Fix this
    38      problem by issuing the following command:</para>
    39 
    40 <screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i 's/tail +/tail -n +/' gzexe.in</userinput></screen>
    41 
    4228    <para os="a">Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
    4329
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