On Mon, 2023-10-09 at 18:31 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>
> ---
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
> ---
>  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 367f3b19f4..1bc07ec2d4 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 \

Should the patch add a CVE_STATUS entry as well so the cve tooling can
tell we've mitigated this?

Cheers,

Richard

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