[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/systemd: add upstream fix for CVE-2018-16864

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "James" == James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> > +[james.hilliard1 at gmail.com: backport from upstream commit
 >> > +084eeb865ca63887098e0945fb4e93c852b91b0f]
 >> > +Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>
 >> 
 >> The "standard way" to backport is to use git cherry-pick -sx which adds
 >> a line like:
 > Patch format in buildroot seems to be fairly inconstant. I think this
 > format was what I was recommended to use last.

True. As systemd is maintained in git, it IMHO makes sense to use the
normal git format.

 >> What about CVE-2018-16865, E.G. commit 052c57f132f04a / ef4d6abe7c7fa?
 >> Do those not apply to 240?
 > So here https://www.qualys.com/2019/01/09/system-down/system-down.txt it says:
 > "CVE-2018-16865 was introduced in December 2011 (systemd v38) and became
 > exploitable in April 2013 (systemd v201). CVE-2018-16866 was introduced
 > in June 2015 (systemd v221) and was inadvertently fixed in August 2018."
 > So my assumption was that we didn't need patches for CVE-2018-16865
 > since systemd 240 was released in Dec 2018.

We don't need a fix for 16866, but we do need for 16865, right?

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard