-----Original Message-----
From: Marek Vasut <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 18:57
To: Marko, Peter (ADV D EU SK BFS1) <[email protected]>; 
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Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
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Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ncurses: Mitigate CVE-2023-29491

> On 10/9/23 18:51, Marko, Peter wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard Purdie 
> > via lists.openembedded.org
> > 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/1c530aad772f7aeef03
> >>> 9b
> >>> 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
>
> Just wanted to make sure the configuration is consistent across all the 
> releases.

I think that the commit message should be changed.
It's misleading when it only says that it mitigates already fixed CVE.

Peter
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