Hi Anders,
unfortunately this is a hairy issue. Redhat's policy about security is a
bit puzzling. They patch (as told before) old versions to make them not
vulnerable, maintaining the same version number. This is weird since being
vulnerable or not is something everyone in the world points out by looking
at the version number. XX is vulnerable, XX+1 is not... but for redhat XX
is not vulnerable also. This is something I hit personally (think how many
times RH has patched vulnerable kernels), that basically makes vulnerable
systems untrackable. I don't know the rationale behind their policy, but
for regular people, this is something hard to manage.
So I get your point and I would really like another solution, but I agree
that we should not solve an issue they created.
Since they patched libcares, they keep track of what is vulnerable and what
is not: they should patch wireshark accordingly to make it compile with the
older one... if they shipped a recent wireshark, and we know they don't.
Ciao.
Dario.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 10:27 PM Anders Broman <a.broma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> No problem. Just so we are aware we dropp support for rhel8 and similiar
> due to a minor technicality in my opinion.
> Best regards
> Anders
>
>
> Den tors 29 sep. 2022 16:32Roland Knall <rkn...@gmail.com> skrev:
>
>> That library was not the only consideration. The main consideration was
>> to cut-off at a certain point for 4.0 so that we can avoid having too many
>> things to consider going forward. There was a message about this on the
>> list a while back as well as a discussion at SF.
>>
>> Now, I get the argument to have compatibility for self-built versions,
>> and I could see a point, where we make a switch for a certain library to
>> have a compatibility mode. But I am not sure if this should be the way
>> forward in this case. Much rather have the nuisance to compile a more
>> recent version together with Wireshark, than have one more thing to support
>>
>> regards
>> Roland
>>
>> Am Do., 29. Sept. 2022 um 15:03 Uhr schrieb Jeff Morriss <
>> jeff.morriss...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Also keep in mind that if RHEL decides to fix the CVE(s) in question in
>>> version 8 of their OS, they would likely apply the fix for the CVE to the
>>> version of CARES that they are already shipping (i.e., they'd create a
>>> version like 1.13.0.<whatever> rather than upgrading to 1.14.x).  They work
>>> hard to avoid changing version numbers for compatibility reasons.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 6:59 AM Anders Broman <a.broma...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Well a choice to make if we want to support CentOS8/RHEL8 or not. One
>>>> could argue that CVE:s in support libraries might not be for us to
>>>> decide on but rather the OS maintainers.
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Anders
>>>>
>>>> Den tors 29 sep. 2022 kl 08:19 skrev Roland Knall <rkn...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> The reason for 1.14 was a CVE that was fixed. I would vote strongly
>>>>> against reducing the Version just to support an older version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Roland
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 28.09.2022 um 18:48 schrieb John Thacker <johnthac...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 10:47 AM Anders Broman <a.broma...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Is there a workaround for
>>>>>> CMake Error at
>>>>>> /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 
>>>>>> (message):
>>>>>>   Could NOT find CARES: Found unsuitable version "1.13.0", but
>>>>>> required is at
>>>>>>   least "1.14.0" (found /usr/lib64/libcares.so)?
>>>>>> I would like to build for CentOS8...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't actually need anything from 1.14.0, so changing the line in
>>>>> CMakeLists.txt that sets the minimum version should be fine. Look at the
>>>>> commit below and change one line to 1.13.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/5991a75d78a31ba61de6c162c79c2928da19c302
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>>>
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