On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 8:24 PM Valek, Andrej <andrej.va...@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> Thank you, that you're taking care of it.
> Sorry, but maybe I didn't catch the right approach about the patching. Are 
> you going to create a "fixing CVE" patch or just patch to set "CVE_PRODUCT" ?

I will submit a patch to set CVE_PRODUCT, since we are currently not
detecting expat CVE's.  I'm not planning to do a patch to fix
CVE-2013-0340, I will leave that to someone who is more familiar with
expat.

Steve

>
> Thanks,
> Andrej
>
> > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:17 PM Richard Purdie 
> > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 12:50 +0000, Andrej Valek wrote:
> >> > Hello everyone,
> >> >
> >> > I have an another question regarding to backporting this to dunfell 
> >> > branch.
> >> > Is it possible to apply this upgrade to this branch? I would like to
> >> > have an very important fix for CVE-2013-0340
> >> > (https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg
> >> > ithub.com%2Flibexpat%2Flibexpat%2Fpull%2F220&amp;data=04%7C01%7Candr
> >> > ej.valek%40siemens.com%7Cc9695097e1bc47d8261708d91fcbba17%7C38ae3bcd
> >> > 95794fd4addab42e1495d55a%7C1%7C0%7C637575782123699324%7CUnknown%7CTW
> >> > FpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVC
> >> > I6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=jBk29qyJpIq%2BsG0iXhnMoSbv%2F2%2Bd8dKIbuV7
> >> > GqP3YA8%3D&amp;reserved=0) there. But there is a lot of changes,
> >> > means just applying the patch is not very promising.
> >> >
> >> > How we can handle it?
> >>
> >> Adding Steve to Cc. It is possible if there is a good case for it and
> >> there aren't bad side effects from the change. I don't know enough
> >> about expat here to comment on that.
> >
> > Our responses crossed in the mail :-)
> >
> > I don't know enough about expat to comment on this either.  But if someone 
> > who is familiar with expat would care to chime in I am open to consider 
> > whether an exception should be made.
> >
> >> I suspect we should be adding something to the expat recipe to make it
> >> match libexpat CVEs, maybe CVE_PRODUCT = "libexpat"?
> >
> > Yes, good catch, that does appear to be the case.  I'll do a little testing 
> > to verify that and will submit a patch.
> >
> > Steve
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