On 10/9/23 18:47, Marko, Peter wrote:
Hi Marek,

Could you please describe why you add this configuration in kirkstone branch?
This CVE is already patched:
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/files/CVE-2023-29491.patch?h=kirkstone

Peter

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Subject: [OE-core] [kirkstone][PATCH] ncurses: Mitigate CVE-2023-29491

Configure with "--disable-root-environ" to disallow loading of custom terminfo 
entries in setuid/setgid programs, mitigating the impact of CVE-2023-29491.

This is taken from debian:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ncurses/-/commit/1c530aad772f7aeef039b8780d51cd09bd5a08ac

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>
---
  meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc 
b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
index 1abcfae1fe..7e85044bdb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ ncurses_configure() {
                --enable-sigwinch \
                --enable-pc-files \
                --disable-rpath-hack \
+               --disable-root-environ \
                ${EXCONFIG_ARGS} \
                --with-manpage-format=normal \
                --without-manpage-renames \

See my reply to the master branch patch.
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