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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server: add security fix for CVE-2020-14347
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:48:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sdymwsk.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ovpn1hxmln.ln2@ID-313208.user.individual.net> (Bernd Kuhls's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2020 19:03:20 +0200")

>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> writes:

 > Am Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:49:06 +0200 schrieb Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot:
 >> This raises a question: what about the older X.org server releases?
 >> According to the NIST CVE entry, all versions prior to 1.20.9 are
 >> affected, so should the patch be backported to the other X.org server
 >> versions we support ?

 > Hi Thomas,

 > the bump to 1.20.9 fixed four CVEs in total which makes backporting 
 > upstream patches more complicated as time passes by and new issues arise, 
 > upstream does not update the older branches anymore:
 > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/

 > Due to the fact that personally I have no use for the older X.org server 
 > versions I would like to raise the question whether we can remove them? 
 > From my POV these older versions are unmaintained in buildroot because I 
 > want to concentrate on the current release which is the one I am using.

They were added to support various binary X11 video drivers,
E.G. nvidia-tegra23 for 1.14.x and amd-catalyst for 1.19.x. Given that
none of them have seen any real updates for ~5 years, I am fine with
removing those packages and the older xserver versions.

Care to send patches for this?

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-10  6:41 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server: add security fix for CVE-2020-14347 Bernd Kuhls
2020-08-11 21:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-08-28 17:03   ` Bernd Kuhls
2020-08-28 18:48     ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2020-08-29 11:36       ` Bernd Kuhls
2020-08-28 15:54 ` Peter Korsgaard
     [not found] ` <fbd81a16-35f0-5e1a-73fb-1b9c703a9408@t-online.de>
2020-08-28 18:56   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/x11r7/xserver_xorg-server: add security fix Thomas Petazzoni

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