903726 – app-arch/ncompress - please tag a new release

Bug 903726 - app-arch/ncompress - please tag a new release

Summary: app-arch/ncompress - please tag a new release

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	SpanKY

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Reported:	2023-04-03 07:53 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified:	2023-10-16 08:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2023-04-03 07:53:58 UTC

Hello Mike,

the current 5.0 or 5.0r1 we have in tree suffers from a 'global buffer overflow read' fixed here:
https://github.com/vapier/ncompress/commit/9eb66df69e8b0281a4a43819f570c3a6d55b1806

I have verified that git version no longer has this problem, would you mind make a new release?

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2023-04-03 14:28:19 UTC

Re-assigning this to vapier as the upstream maintainer.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2023-10-16 08:59:03 UTC

please post these to the upstream GH project