Re: [PATCH] maint: update to latest gnulib

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On 02/01/2013 12:16 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 16:34:24 -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> CVE-2013-0242 in glibc's regex() can cause a DoS in any daemon
>> that runs a regex search on user input while in a multibyte locale.
>> I'm not sure how hard it would be to trigger such a setup for
>> libvirtd, but rather than risk things, we can avoid the issue:
>> gnulib has worked around the problem, and by updating to the latest
>> gnulib, we can avoid the bug even on platforms where glibc has yet
>> to be patched.
>>
>> * .gnulib: Update to latest, for various fixes, including regex.
>> * bootstrap: Resync from upstream.
> 
> ACK

Thanks; pushed.

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