Re: 01/01: gnu: curl: Update replacement to 7.52.0 [fixes CVE-2016-{9586, 9952, 9953}].

[ng0]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>
>>> 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.html

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