[Mageia-dev] Security updates - help needed!

[David Walser]

I've picked off all of the low-hanging fruit, so the remaining packages on this list really do need help to get fixed.

......... updated initial message below ........

There are several packages that need security updates that either have not been built yet, or there are some issues that need help and/or input from packagers.

Please help out with these where you can.

I'll try to organize these into categories and give a little info on them so it's easy to see if you can and want to help.

Web apps
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ocsinventory - Mageia 1 package needs to be updated or patched (patches available from MDV)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5252
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2129

mediawiki - versions we have are at or nearing EOL upstream, probably should be updated.  Oliver Burger is working on this.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3448

drupal - update built, issues found by QA need fixing.  Oliver Burger is working on this.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5844

GNOME software
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mono - upstream commit linked
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6789

libvirt - patch available from RedHat
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526

libguestfs - patch available from RedHat
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6818

gjs - doesn't rebuild against xulrunner in Mageia 1, but doesn't seem to be used by anything
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6382

Games
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openarena, alienarena - affected by DoS bug in quake3 engine.  Juan Luis Baptiste is working on this.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5496

Java-related
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jruby - fixed upstream in 1.6.5.1
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6742

poi - In progress by D Morgan.  Additional updates pending.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011

apache-commons-compress - In progress by D Morgan.  Mageia 1 updates pending.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6331

apache-commons-daemon - fixed upstream in 1.0.7 (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7004

Ruby-related
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Several security issues, one possible packaging issue
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6487

No response has been received from packagers yet
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ganglia - patch available from Fedora, we have another bug report saying it doesn't start
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6874

libreoffice - Mageia 1 only, patch available from RedHat
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6944

stunnel - package has several other issues as well, should probably just be updated
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3951

phpmyadmin - needs updated to 3.5.2.1 and fixed in Cauldron for new apache conf layout
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6905

python-django - issues fixed upstream in 1.3.2.  Philippe Makowski said he'll work on this.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6986

empathy - XSS issues fixed upstream in 3.2.1 (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7008

abrt/libreport/btparser - should probably be upgraded to newer versions available from RedHat
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523

sos - 62 patches available from Fedora
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525

x11-server - upstream diffs linked by RedHat, maybe patches available from Ubuntu or Gentoo, plus other security issues fixed by RH/OpenSuSE/Ubuntu
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6744

In progress (help needed to finish)
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dhcp - issues fixed upstream in 4.2.4-P1
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6872

bind - issues fixed upstream in 9.8.3-P2 and 9.9.1-P2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6873

xen - doesn't build in Cauldron (incompatible pointer type in i8259.c)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6931

gc - links to upstream and Fedora patches available in bug, already fixed in Cauldron
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6652

bip - patch in Mageia 1 didn't fix it according to QA, patch wasn't applied in Mageia 2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4319

emacs - re-diffing patch for Emacs 23.2 (Mageia 1) is non-trivial
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6995

psi - fixed in SVN, does not build in Cauldron (can't find qca2-devel even though it's installed)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7002