[OE-core] bash: Fix CVE-2019-18276

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Feb 18 15:35:18 UTC 2020


On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 10:28 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/17/20 9:46 PM, Huo, De wrote:
> >  I applied the patch to fix CVE defect CVE-2019-18276.
> 
> That's not exactly an answer to the question of who produced the patch.
> If that patch is the one causing failures when it's applied, doesn't it
> make sense to go back to the person who produced it and ask them to
> update it if necessary?

Its likely a general CVE patch where both configure and configure.ac
are patched. For OE, we can drop the configure part since we reautoconf
the code. Its therefore the OE port of the patch which is likely at
fault.

Someone just needs to remove that section of the patch.

Cheers,

Richard



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