Re: [gentoo-dev] removing vulnerable versions of dev-lang/v8

[Ian Stakenvicius]

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On 08/11/13 12:22 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> For some context of this please see
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88222>
>
> v8-3.20.17.7 fixes a memory corruption vulnerability, see
> <http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/10/stable-channel-update.html>
>
>  However, we still have v8-3.19 and even 3.18 in portage - this is
> probably an oversight when stabilizing new versions.
>
> Problem #1 is that sci-geosciences/osgearth-2.4 depends on
> =dev-lang/v8-3.18.5.14 (see
> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484786> for context). It
> doesn't work with more recent v8, but it can be made to not depend
> on v8.
>
> Problem #2 is dev-db/drizzle having a v8 USE flag. The ebuild is
> actually broken for other reasons, see
> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490216>. I'd like that USE
> flag to be removed and v8 to always be disabled in drizzle.
>
> With that I'd like to proceed with hard masking v8. I'm working
> with upstream on better API stability, it seems to be working
> pretty well. That's still a very long way to ABI stability, if at
> all possible.
>
> Please comment on possible solutions for removing known vulnerable
> v8 versions from the tree.
>
> Paweł
>

So, you're saying, drop v8 USE flags and deps from these two packages,
and hard-mask?  Makes sense to me...

I'm still a little concerned about the potential security issues
caused by embedded V8's in projects, but as we've already concluded in
that other thread, there's no other way until the API stabilizes..


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