760654 – app-emulation/qemu-riscv64-bin unmaintained (what is it?)

Bug 760654 - app-emulation/qemu-riscv64-bin unmaintained (what is it?)

Summary: app-emulation/qemu-riscv64-bin unmaintained (what is it?)

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	RISCV project

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Reported:	2020-12-18 16:52 UTC by Reva Denis
Modified:	2020-12-19 18:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Reva Denis 2020-12-18 16:52:22 UTC

I notice that the package seems to be unmaintained and potentially vulnerable.

And what a hel… What does that package does if there are usual qemu with riscv64 target?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Reva Denis 2020-12-18 16:52:48 UTC

What is purpose of the package?

Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2020-12-19 14:14:41 UTC

Which vulnerabilities do you mean? Any CVE, or upstream report?
Please add them here, if they are public.

Comment 3 Matthias Maier gentoo-dev

2020-12-19 18:01:03 UTC

The package is maintained.

It simply contains the riscv64 emulator.

It is used by the riscv64 team to create stage-3 images that automatically include an appropriate interpreter to run said images on amd64.

As such security implications are also fairly minimal - the emulator is simply used to emulate binaries for the riscv64 architecture, not to wall off virtualized guests.