572980 – app-text/apvlv: disable optional webkit support

Bug 572980 - app-text/apvlv: disable optional webkit support

Summary: app-text/apvlv: disable optional webkit support

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Blocks:	CVE-2016-1723, CVE-2016-1724, CVE-2016-1725, CVE-2016-1726, CVE-2016-1727, CVE-2016-1728
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Reported:	2016-01-26 12:24 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2016-12-13 11:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-01-26 12:24:48 UTC

Older slots than :4 have multiple vulnerabilities and mostly ignored. I couldn't see any upstream action in porting it to webkitgtk4, if that is the case, could the optional webkit support be simply removed?

Thanks

Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2016-01-29 12:57:25 UTC

Sounds good to me.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-01-30 10:45:36 UTC

[master a5c4eb6] app-text/apvlv: Disable optional webkit support to not rely on obsolete versions (with security issues (#572980)
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 app-text/apvlv/apvlv-0.1.5-r1.ebuild