Re: coreutils: i18n for v8.24

[Ondřej Vašík]

Bernhard Voelker píše v Čt 16. 07. 2015 v 03:25 +0200:
> On 07/14/2015 05:58 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> would you mind merging v8.24 to your semi-official "i18n" branch
> >> on github [0]?
> > 
> > Done
> 
> Thanks!
> Hmm, it seems you didn't merge but you rebased the I18N patch,
> i.e. the version of the patch needed for v8.23 is not visible
> anymore, is it?
> 
> > There are only a couple of divergences and on very quick scan,
> > the Fedora/github one seems to be the latest. I'll verify that later
> > and ensure github/Fedora has the latest revision.
> 
> For openSUSE's version of the patch, I've found the missing pieces
> (not yet pushed to OBS):
> * the fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148347
>   had been in a separate patch file; now squashed.
> * the cut performance improvement for cut(1) in field-mode and UTF8
>   was missing
> 
> Regarding Fedora: the only difference I can see now is that Fedora's
> version of the patch seems to use an older version of your recent
> sort/I18N fix for CVE-2015-4041 and CVE-2015-4042 [0]:
> 
> diff -u src/sort.c ~/coreutils/src/sort.c
> --- src/sort.c  2015-07-15 23:52:42.664935007 +0200
> +++ /home/berny/coreutils/src/sort.c    2015-07-15 23:43:46.725105768 +0200
> @@ -3243,7 +3243,9 @@
> 
>        if (ignore || translate)
>          {
> -          char *copy_a = (char *) xmalloc ((lena + lenb) * MB_CUR_MAX + 2);
> +          if (SIZE_MAX - lenb - 2 < lena)
> +            xalloc_die ();
> +          char *copy_a = (char *) xnmalloc (lena + lenb + 2, MB_CUR_MAX);
>            char *copy_b = copy_a + lena * MB_CUR_MAX + 1;
>            size_t new_len_a, new_len_b;
>            size_t i, j;
> 
> (Left side is Fedora, right side is your pixelb/i18n branch.)

Thanks Berny,
fixed now in Fedora Rawhide...

Regards,
       Ondrej

> 
> [0] https://github.com/pixelb/coreutils/commit/bea5e36cc876
> 
> Thanks & have a nice day,
> Berny
>