#27462 - OCaml CVE-2015-8869 - GNU bug report logs

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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 12:03:04 -0400
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: bug#27462: OCaml CVE-2015-8869
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:25:52AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> On 24/06/17 02:41, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > Our package ocaml-4.01 is vulnerable to CVE-2015-8869, which we patched
> > in the primary ocaml package in April 2016. Unfortunately, this patch
> > was not included when the ocaml-4.01 package was created in January
> > 2017.
> > 
> > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8869
> > 
> > Do we need this older version of OCaml? If so, we need a volunteer to
> > maintain it.
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. AFAIK OCaml 4.01 is really only used to build
> pplacer, a bioinformatics program. I was planning on submitting 3 further
> bioinformatic packages soon which rely on pplacer, however.
> 
> I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to backport patches to such an old
> release, especially since the OCaml maintainers do not appear to be either,
> AFAICS.
> 
> This is a little frustrating, but perhaps they should be removed. WDYT?

That is a last resort :)

We should check if another distro has a patch for OCaml 4.01, if we can
backport the patch, if pplacer can use a newer OCaml, and only then
consider removing the packages.

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#27462 OCaml CVE-2015-8869