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authorLeo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>2016-02-24 15:57:30 -0500
committerMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2016-02-24 16:32:08 -0500
commit78d80c5c6ae971a715f03465030d3b0de24a1a96 (patch)
tree5ebeeebd4d4fdad3dd03b753eb21e8dd20fce3e7 /gnu/packages/curl.scm
parentc8e26887eda99d1cd7b89772ff642854a6b78ebd (diff)
gnu: libssh2: Update to 1.7.0 [fixes CVE-2016-0787].
* gnu/packages/ssh.scm (libssh2): Update to 1.7.0. (libssh2-1.4): New variable. * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[inputs]: Use libssh4-1.4. Modified-By: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/curl.scm b/gnu/packages/curl.scm
index 222910b655..46e0fa0f16 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/curl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/curl.scm
@@ -54,7 +54,16 @@
(inputs `(("gnutls" ,gnutls)
("gss" ,gss)
("libidn" ,libidn)
- ("libssh2" ,libssh2)
+
+ ;; XXX libssh2-1.4 is a temporary package for use only by curl,
+ ;; to allow most users of libssh2 to get the security update for
+ ;; CVE-2016-7087 while postponing the large number of rebuilds
+ ;; entailed by updating curl. Soon, curl should be updated to
+ ;; use the latest libssh2 and libssh2-1.4 should be removed.
+
+ ;; XXX libssh2-1.4 is vulnerable to CVE-2016-0787.
+ ("libssh2" ,libssh2-1.4)
+
("openldap" ,openldap)
("zlib" ,zlib)))
(native-inputs