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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2019-03

Paul's Blog Entries for March 2019

Saturday 2nd March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.063 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Support for both RSA and ECDSA certificate on same domain
    • Update PublicSuffix

    • Refuse to build if Net::SSLeay is compiled with one version of !OpenSSL but then linked against another API-incompatible version (i.e. more than just the patchlevel differs)

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030509 in F-30 and Rawhide (more work-in-progress on compatibility with more recent pari versions)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.063 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 3rd March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Data-UUID to 1.224 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Properly quote C strings passed in DEFINE

    • Fix memory leak by decreasing reference count
    • Use File::Spec to get tmpdir instead of hardcoding

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Data-UUID to 1.224 as per the Fedora version

Monday 4th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Builder to 0.8200 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Removed use of Class::Factory::Util, which isn't really needed

  • Updated perl-IO-AIO to 4.7 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Significantly speed up scandir for the very special case of a non-POSIX filesystem that nevertheless reports valid dt_type information; the only known filesystem of this type is currently btrfs, which didn't get its act together to implement POSIX semantics in all these years

    • Add IO::AIO::MCL_ONFAULT for mlockall, add IO::AIO::mlockall

    • Neither sys/mkdev.h nor sys/sysmacros.h were included, even when they were detected by autoconf

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.064 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Make algorithm for fingerprint optional, i.e. detect based on length of fingerprint (CPAN RT#127773)

    • Fix t/sessions.t and improve stability of t/verify_hostname.t on Windows

    • Use CTX_set_ecdh_auto when needed (OpenSSL 1.0.2) if explicit curves are set

    • Update fingerprints for live tests

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Builder to 0.8200 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-IO-AIO to 4.7 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.064 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 6th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.066 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Make sure that Net::SSLeay::CTX_get0_param is defined before using X509_V_FLAG_PARTIAL_CHAIN; Net::SSLeay 1.85 defined only the second with LibreSSL 2.7.4 but not the first (CPAN RT#128716)

    • Prefer AES for server side cipher default since it is usually hardware-accelerated
    • Fix test t/verify_partial_chain.t by using the newly exposed function can_partial_chain instead of guessing (wrongly) if the functionality is available

  • Updated perl-JSON-XS to 4.02 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Undo the fix from 4.01, which breaks more things than it fixes
    • Try a proper fix this time

Local Packages

  • Updated dovecot (2.3.x):

    • Updated dovecot to 2.3.5:

      • Lua push notification driver: mail keywords and flags are provided in MessageNew and MessageAppend events

      • Submission: Implement support for plugins
      • auth: When auth_policy_log_only=yes, only log what the policy server response would do without actually doing it

      • auth: Always log policy server decisions with auth_verbose=yes

      • v2.3.[34]: doveadm log errors: Output was missing user/session
      • lda: Debug log lines could have shown slightly corrupted
      • login proxy: Login processes may have crashed in various ways when login_proxy_max_disconnect_delay was set

      • imap: Fix crash with Maildir+zlib if client disconnects during APPEND

      • lmtp proxy: Fix potential assert-crash

      • lmtp/submission: Fix crash when SMTP client transaction times out
      • Submission: Split large XCLIENT commands to 512 bytes per command, so Postfix accepts them

      • Submission: Fix crash when client sends invalid BURL command

      • Submission: relay backend: VRFY command: Avoid forwarding 500 and 502 replies back to client

      • lib-http: Fix potential assert-crash when DNS lookup fails

      • lib-fts: Fix search query generation when one language ignores a token (e.g. via stopwords)
    • Updated pigeonhole to 0.5.5:

      • IMAPSieve: Add new plugin/imapsieve_expunge_discarded setting that causes messages discarded by an IMAPSieve script to be expunged immediately, rather than only being marked as "\Deleted" (which is still the default behaviour)

      • IMAPSieve: Fix panic crash occurring when a COPY command copies messages from a virtual mailbox where the source messages originate from more than a single real mailbox

      • imap4flags extension: Fix deleting all keywords; when the action resulted in all keywords being removed, no changes were actually applied
      • variables extension: Fix truncation of UTF-8 variable content; the maximum size of Sieve variables was enforced by truncating the variable string content bluntly at the limit, but this does not consider UTF-8 code point boundaries, which resulted in broken UTF-8 strings
      • IMAPSieve, IMAP FILTER=SIEVE: Fix replacing a modified message; Sieve scripts running in IMAPSIEVE or IMAP FILTER=SIEVE context that modify the message, stored the message a second time, rather than replacing the originally stored unmodified message

      • Fix segmentation fault occurring when both the sieve_extprograms plugin (for the Sieve interpreter) and the imap_filter_sieve plugin (for IMAP) are loaded at the same time; a symbol was defined by both plugins, causing a clash when both were loaded

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.066 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-JSON-XS to 4.02 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 7th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Test-Differences to 0.67 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Correctly compare subroutine references

Local Packages

  • Repository now available for Fedora 30 development branch
  • Updated perl-Test-Differences to 0.67 as per the Fedora version

Friday 8th March 2019

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Capture-Tiny (0.48), perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements (2.140), perl-File-chdir (0.1011), perl-Params-Validate (1.29) and perl-Sub-Uplevel (0.28) to work around mock locale issues by adding build requirement glibc-langpack-en when running test suites

  • Updated perl-Crypt-Cracklib (1.7) and py-bcrypt (0.4) to add build requirement gcc

  • Rebuilt perl-DBI (1.642) for the Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

  • Rebuilt perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu (1.36) for readline 8 in F-30 and Rawhide

Sunday 10th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IO-AIO to 4.71 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Due to an error in the linux manpages, the configure tests for readahead, sync_file_range, splice etc. failed; this has been fixed

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IO-AIO to 4.71 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Spelling (0.20) and perl-Try-Tiny (0.30) to work around mock locale issues by adding build requirement glibc-langpack-en when running test suites

Monday 11th March 2019

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-strictures to 2.000006:

    • Update internal list of warnings for categories added in blead (v5.29.9)
    • Fix extras test to avoid any files in the temp directory's parent directories interfering (CPAN RT#128751)

  • Updated perl-Sub-Quote to 2.006003:

    • Don't test threads behaviour on perl < 5.8.5, since they are too unstable

    • More tests
    • Preserve inf, nan, and false in quotify

    • Improve accuracy of quotified floating point numbers
    • SUB_QUOTE_DEBUG can now be set to sub names, package names, or a regex to match against the code to filter which generated subs are printed to STDERR

    • Avoid warnings or failures on new perls when testing quoting UTF-8 strings
    • Test quotify output under utf8 pragma

    • Fix quoting of negative NaN

    • Fix quotifying of backslashes in utf8-flagged strings on perl 5.10.0

Tuesday 12th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-true to 1.0.1 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Fix breakage when using Moo/Moose and Function::Parameters on perl < 5.24 (CPAN RT#124745)

    • Add t/rt-124745.t

    • Update ppport.h from 3.19 → 3.44

    • License changed from (GPL+ or Artistic) to Artistic 2.0

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Dir-Self (0.11)

  • New package perl-Function-Parameters (2.1.3)

  • Updated perl-true to 1.0.1 as per the Fedora version

  • Rebuilt xv (3.10a) for the Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

Thursday 14th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.026000 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Added example script top20_favorites.pl

    • Updated SYNOPSIS for Favorite

    • Fixed link to Search Spec (GH#101)

    • Fixed typo in error message (GH#100)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.026000 as per the Fedora version

Saturday 16th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.39 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • It's 2019
    • Fix tests to skip on Encode failing (GH#17)

    • Tested on Z/OS (s390x - Hercules)
    • Test with new Module::CPANTS::Analyse

    • Add options -w/-b/-Z to csvdiff

    • Fix strict on streaming EOF

    • Now also tested with cperl

Local Packages

  • Updated c-ares (1.15.0) to use cmake to build (from Fedora 30) so we get cmake helpers (Bug #1687844)

  • Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.39 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 17th March 2019

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test2-Suite to 0.000119:

    • Allow meta-checks in bag/array/hash

Monday 18th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.10 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Fix incr_text refcounts (GH#123)

    • Add incr_reset testcase (GH#123)

    • Fix encode_stringify string-overload refcnt problem (GH#124) - "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" with convert_blessed and overload

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.10 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 19th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated libssh2 to 1.8.1 in F-28, F-29, F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Fixed possible integer overflow when reading a specially crafted packet (CVE-2019-3855)

    • Fixed possible integer overflow in userauth_keyboard_interactive with a number of extremely long prompt strings (CVE-2019-3863)

    • Fixed possible integer overflow if the server sent an extremely large number of keyboard prompts (CVE-2019-3856)

    • Fixed possible out of bounds read when processing a specially crafted packet (CVE-2019-3861)

    • Fixed possible integer overflow when receiving a specially crafted exit signal message channel packet (CVE-2019-3857)

    • Fixed possible out of bounds read when receiving a specially crafted exit status message channel packet (CVE-2019-3862)

    • Fixed possible zero byte allocation when reading a specially crafted SFTP packet (CVE-2019-3858)

    • Fixed possible out of bounds reads when processing specially crafted SFTP packets (CVE-2019-3860)

    • Fixed possible out of bounds reads in _libssh2_packet_require(v) (CVE-2019-3859)

  • I added a patch to fix a mis-applied patch in the fix of CVE-2019-3859

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030510 in F-30 and Rawhide

Local Packages

  • Updated libssh2 to 1.8.1 as per the Fedora version

Thursday 21st March 2019

Local Packages

  • bw-whois has been retired by its author so I won't be building it for Fedora 30 onwards

  • Updated curl (7.64.0) to avoid spurious "Could not resolve host: [host name]" error messages

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20190320:

    • Updated for v5.29.9

Friday 22nd March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.100 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • FSDB fix for variable declarations of array of reals
    • Added Real, Time, Enum, and Popcnt flags to Edit/Show-Change

    • Ensure Show-Change regenerates analog traces

    • Added braces inside Tcl source command to allow spaces in filenames for Tcl scripts

Local Packages

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.3.100 as per the Fedora version

Sunday 24th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated milter-greylist (4.6.2) in F-28, F-29, F-30 and Rawhide to make the /run/milter-greylist directory owned by root to avoid need for the dac_override capability (Bug #1678038)

  • Updated milter-regex (2.2) in F-28, F-29, F-30 and Rawhide to make the /var/spool/milter-regex directory owned by root to avoid need for the dac_override capability (Bug #1678040)

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030512 in F-30 and Rawhide

  • Updated smf-sav (2.1) and smf-spf (2.0.2) to fix permissions of /run/smfs so that the dac_read_search capability is not needed during milter start-up

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.20:

    • Provide a more informative exception report if application code has no "use Net::DNS::SEC" declaration but nevertheless attempts to invoke the DNSSEC sign or verify features (CPAN RT#127307)

    • Recurse.pm failed to resolve domain "kickboxingireland.ie" (CPAN RT#128081)

    • Revise documentation examples to use AAAA instead of A records

    • TSIG MAC representation changed to Base64 (align with BIND)
    • Update Parameters.pm to resync with IANA registry

    • Refactor resolver test scripts
  • Updated perl-XML-LibXML to 2.0200:

    • Convert to use Alien::Libxml2 (GH#30)

  • Since Alien::Libxml2 is very heavy in terms of dependencies, I patched the build system to use ExtUtils::PkgConfig instead

Monday 25th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030513 in Rawhide

Local Packages

  • Updated curl (7.64.0) to remove verbose "Expire in" ... messages (Bug #1690971)

Tuesday 26th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated libssh2 to 1.8.2 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Fixed the misapplied userauth patch that broke 1.8.1
    • Moved the MAX size declarations from the public header

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030514 in Rawhide

Local Packages

  • Updated libssh2 to 1.8.2 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 27th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.11 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Fix unicode strings with BOM corrupt ->utf8 state (GH#125); the BOM encoding affects only its very own decode call, not its object

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.64.1:

    • alt-svc: Experimental support added
    • configure: Add --with-amissl

    • AppVeyor: Add MinGW-w64 and classic Mingw builds

    • AppVeyor: Switch VS 2015 builds to VS 2017 image

    • CURLU: Fix NULL dereference when used over proxy

    • Curl_easy: Remove req.maxfd - never used!

    • Curl_now: Figure out windows version in win32_init

    • Curl_resolv: Fix a gcc -Werror=maybe-uninitialized warning

    • DoH: Inherit some SSL options from user's easy handle
    • Secure Transport: No more "darwinssl"
    • Secure Transport: tvOS 11 is required for ALPN support
    • cirrus: Added FreeBSD builds using Cirrus CI
    • cleanup: Make local functions static
    • cli tool: Do not use mime.h private structures

    • cmdline-opts/proxytunnel.d: The option tunnels all protocols

    • configure: Add additional libraries to check for LDAP support

    • configure: Remove the unused fdopen macro

    • configure: Show features as well in the final summary

    • conncache: Use conn->data to know if a transfer owns it

    • connection: Never reuse CONNECT_ONLY connections

    • connection_check: Restore original conn->data after the check

    • connection_check: Set ->data to the transfer doing the check

    • cookie: Add support for cookie prefixes
    • cookies: Dotless names can set cookies again
    • cookies: Fix NULL dereference if flushing cookies with no CookieInfo set

    • curl.1: --user and --proxy-user are hidden from ps output

    • curl.1: Mark the argument to --cookie as <data|filename>

    • curl.h: Use __has_declspec_attribute for shared builds

    • curl: Display --version features sorted alphabetically

    • curl: Fix FreeBSD compiler warning in the --xattr code

    • curl: Remove MANUAL from -M output

    • curl_easy_duphandle.3: Clarify that a dup-ed handle has no shares

    • curl_multi_remove_handle.3: Use at any time, just not from within callbacks

    • curl_url.3: This API is not experimental any more

    • dns: Release sharelock as soon as possible
    • docs: Update max-redirs.d phrasing

    • easy: Fix win32 init to work without CURL_GLOBAL_WIN32

    • examples/10-at-a-time.c: Improve readability and simplify

    • examples/cacertinmem.c: Use multiple certificates for loading CA-chain

    • examples/crawler: Fix the Accept-Encoding setting

    • examples/ephiperfifo.c: Various fixes

    • examples/externalsocket: Add missing close socket calls

    • examples/http2-download: Cleaned up

    • examples/http2-serverpush: Add some sensible error checks

    • examples/http2-upload: Cleaned up

    • examples/httpcustomheader: Value stored to 'res' is never read

    • examples/postinmemory: Potential leak of memory pointed to by 'chunk.memory'

    • examples/sftpuploadresume: Value stored to 'result' is never read

    • examples: Only include <curl/curl.h>

    • examples: Remove recursive calls to curl_multi_socket_action

    • examples: Remove superfluous null-pointer checks
    • file: Fix "Checking if unsigned variable 'readcount' is less than zero"
    • fnmatch: Disable if FTP is disabled

    • gnutls: Remove call to deprecated gnutls_compression_get_name

    • gopher: Remove check for path == NULL

    • gssapi: Fix deprecated header warnings
    • hostip: Make create_hostcache_id avoid alloc + free

    • http2: multi_connchanged() moved from multi.c, only used for h2

    • http2: Verify :authority in push promise requests

    • http: Make adding a blank header thread-safe
    • http: Send payload when (proxy) authentication is done
    • http: Set state.infilesize when sending multipart formposts

    • makefile: Make checksrc and hugefile commands "silent"

    • mbedtls: Make it build even if MBEDTLS_VERSION_C isn't set

    • mbedtls: Release sessionid resources on error

    • memdebug: Log pointer before freeing its data
    • memdebug: Make debug-specific functions use curl_dbg_ prefix

    • mime: Put the boundary buffer into the curl_mime struct

    • multi: Call multi_done on connect timeouts, fixes CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME

    • multi: Remove verbose "Expire in" ... messages
    • multi: Removed unused code for request retries
    • multi: Support verbose conncache closure handle
    • negotiate: Fix for HTTP POST with Negotiate
    • openssl: Add support for TLS ASYNC state
    • openssl: If cert type is ENG and no key specified, key is ENG too

    • pretransfer: Don't strlen() POSTFIELDS set for GET requests

    • rand: Fix a mismatch between comments in source and header
    • runtests: Detect "schannel" as an alias for "winssl"

    • schannel: Be quiet - remove verbose output
    • schannel: Close TLS before removing conn from cache
    • schannel: Support CALG_ECDH_EPHEM algorithm

    • scripts/completion.pl: Also generate fish completion file

    • singlesocket: Fix the 'sincebefore' placement

    • source: Fix two 'nread' may be used uninitialized warnings

    • ssh: Fix Condition '!status' is always true

    • ssh: Loop the state machine if not done and not blocking
    • strerror: Make the strerror function use local buffers

    • system_win32: Move win32_init here from easy.c

    • test578: Make it read data from the correct test

    • tests: Fixed XML validation errors in some test files
    • tests: Add stderr comparison to the test suite

    • tests: Fix multiple may be used uninitialized warnings
    • threaded-resolver: Shut down the resolver thread without error message
    • tool_cb_wrt: Fix writing to Windows null device NUL

    • tool_getpass: termios.h is present on AmigaOS 3, but no tcgetattr/tcsetattr

    • tool_operate: Build on AmigaOS

    • tool_operate: Fix typecheck warning

    • transfer.c: Do not compute length of undefined hex buffer

    • travis: Add build using gnutls

    • travis: Add scan-build
    • travis: Bump the used wolfSSL version to 4.0.0
    • travis: Enable valgrind for the iconv tests

    • travis: Use updated compiler versions: clang 7 and gcc 8

    • unit1307: Require FTP support

    • unit1651: Survive curl_easy_init() fails

    • url/idnconvert: Remove scan for ≤ 32 ascii values

    • url: Change conn shutdown order to ensure SOCKETFUNCTION callbacks

    • urlapi: Reduce variable scope, remove unreachable 'break'

    • urldata: Convert bools to bitfields and move to end
    • urldata: Simplify byte counters
    • urlglob: Argument with 'nonnull' attribute passed null
    • version.c: Silent scan-build even when librtmp is not enabled

    • vtls: Rename some of the SSL functions
    • wolfssl: Stop custom-adding curves
    • x509asn1: "Dereference of null pointer"
    • x509asn1: Clean up and unify code layout
    • zsh.pl: Escape ':' character

    • zsh.pl: Update regex to better match curl -h output

  • Updated perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS to 4.11 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 2.34:

    • This release is based on version 2019a of the Olson database
    • Contemporary changes for Palestine and Metlakatla, Alaska
  • Updated perl-Net-SSLeay to 1.86_09 (see Changes file for details)

Thursday 28th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Math-Pari to 2.030515 in Rawhide

Friday 29th March 2019

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Class-Inspector to 1.34:

    • Fix compatibility with Devel::Hide (GH#6, GH#8)

  • Updated perl-DateTime-Locale to 1.24:

    • Rebuilt all locale data with CLDR 35, released on 2019-03-27

Saturday 30th March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.60 in F-30 and Rawhide:

  • I added a patch to fix a couple of typos (GH#1)

  • Updated perl-Net-SSLeay (1.86_09) in Rawhide to get libraries to link against from pkg-config (GH#127)

Local Packages

  • Updated dovecot (2.2) to 2.2.36.3 and dovecot (2.3) to 2.3.5.1:

    • CVE-2019-7524: Missing input buffer size validation leads into arbitrary buffer overflow when reading fts or pop3 uidl header from Dovecot index; exploiting this requires direct write access to the index files

  • Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.60 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Net-SSLeay (1.86_09) as per the Fedora version

Sunday 31st March 2019

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.61 in F-30 and Rawhide:

    • Fix a couple of typos (GH#1)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.61 as per the Fedora version

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