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From: Jonathan Callen <jcallen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:12:18
Message-Id: 56D8D2C5.3010606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories by Grant Edwards
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4 On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
5 > I'm sure I'm just being stupid, but I don't understand the lists of
6 > affected and unaffected version numbers in Gentoo security
7 > advisories.
8 >
9 > For example:
10 >
11 > Package dev-libs/openssl on all architectures Affected
12 > versions < 1.0.2f
13 >
14 > Unaffected versions >= 1.0.2f, revision >= 1.0.1r, revision >=
15 > 1.0.1s, revision >= 1.0.1t, revision >= 0.9.8z_p8, revision >=
16 > 0.9.8z_p9, revision >= 0.9.8z_p10, revision >= 0.9.8z_p11,
17 > revision
18 >> = 0.9.8z_p12, revision >= 0.9.8z_p13, revision >= 0.9.8z_p14,
19 > revision >= 0.9.8z_p15
20 >
21 > If it's true that versions >= 0.9.8z_p8 are unaffected, why is
22 > there a need to list that versions >= 0.9.8z_p[9-15] are
23 > unaffected? Are <> relationships betwen version numbers within the
24 > 0.9.8z_pNNN seriels not transitive?
25 >
26
27 The "revision >=" operator in GLSAs indicates "any -r# revision of the
28 version greater than or equal to the indicated revision", so this is
29 saying that 0.9.8z_p15 isn't affected, nor is 0.9.8z_p15-r1, but 1.0.0
30 *is* affected.
31
32 Jonathan
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[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>