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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] removing vulnerable versions of dev-lang/v8
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:22:44
Message-Id: 527C7517.3070409@gentoo.org
1 For some context of this please see
2 <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88222>
3
4 v8-3.20.17.7 fixes a memory corruption vulnerability, see
5 <http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/10/stable-channel-update.html>
6
7 However, we still have v8-3.19 and even 3.18 in portage - this is
8 probably an oversight when stabilizing new versions.
9
10 Problem #1 is that sci-geosciences/osgearth-2.4 depends on
11 =dev-lang/v8-3.18.5.14 (see
12 <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484786> for context). It
13 doesn't work with more recent v8, but it can be made to not depend on v8.
14
15 Problem #2 is dev-db/drizzle having a v8 USE flag. The ebuild is
16 actually broken for other reasons, see
17 <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490216>. I'd like that USE flag
18 to be removed and v8 to always be disabled in drizzle.
19
20 With that I'd like to proceed with hard masking v8. I'm working with
21 upstream on better API stability, it seems to be working pretty well.
22 That's still a very long way to ABI stability, if at all possible.
23
24 Please comment on possible solutions for removing known vulnerable v8
25 versions from the tree.
26
27 Paweł

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Re: [gentoo-dev] removing vulnerable versions of dev-lang/v8 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] removing vulnerable versions of dev-lang/v8 "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>