[arch-dev-public] [signoff] glib2 2.16.0 (security issue)

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Tue Mar 24 17:47:15 EDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 17:11 +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Montag 23 März 2009 08:52:46 schrieb Jan de Groot:
> > This release fixes a security issue:
> > glib/gbase64.c: Avoid integer overflows in the base64 29 functions.
> > Fixes CVE-2008-4316
> >
> > This is a major version update that should be compatible with the old
> > 2.14 series and is a requirement for GNOME 2.26. Please signoff for both
> > architectures.
> 
> If you meant glib2-2.20.0-1 I'll sign-off for both arches.
> 

Yes, that's what I actually meant :D
gtk2 has this version, that's what caused the confusion.



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