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<[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard Purdie via 
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Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 18:44
To: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ncurses: Mitigate CVE-2023-29491

> 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/1c530aad772f7aeef039b
> > 8780d51cd09bd5a08ac
> > 
> > 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?

ncurses 6.4 is not affected and not shown in CVE report, not sure why this is 
submitted for master.
Peter

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
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