Hi,

Simon Tournier <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> If you install Guix System from the released image v1.5.0, yes,
> guix-daemon is vulnerable BUT…
>
> …once the installation complete, right after and before any other
> action, if you run ’guix pull` as root and update your system, then
> you’ll get the last guix-daemon – free from these vulnerabilities.
>
> I agree it’s far from perfect because the intermediary step is
> vulnerable and resource-costly.
>
> As the blog post says [0], one question reads:
>
>         Whether to pass --no-substitutes is therefore a judgment call
>         that must take into consideration how long it has been since
>         these vulnerabilities were made public, how exposed the network
>         paths between your system and your substitute servers are, how
>         feasible it is for the system in question to build guix by
>         itself, whether the system in question has multiple users, and
>         of course, your threat model.
>
> And it’s hard to answer for you. :-)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> 0: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/guix-substitute-pull-vulnerabilities/

Yes, it could work. But, as you say, it will mean using a vulnerable
version of Guix-daemon.


Best regards

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Gendre Sébastien

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