[Mageia-dev] Security updates - help needed!

[David Walser]

First update of the new year.  Please help where you can.

Also, Manuel pointed out a bugzilla search that will typically contain most of these.
https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=comp:secu+-@qa-b

......... 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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mediawiki [mga2] - 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

glpi [mga2] - issue fixed in 0.83.3, no backported patch is available that I'm aware of
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6762

GNOME software
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libvirt [mga2+cauldron] - patches available from RedHat
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526

Games
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openarena, alienarena [mga2] - affected by DoS bug in quake3 engine.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5496

Java-related
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tomcat5, tomcat6, tomcat [mga2,cauldron] - issues fixed upstream
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8307

jruby [mga2+cauldron] - one issue fixed upstream in 1.6.5.1, the other in 1.7.1
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6742

poi [mga2+cauldron] - jakarta-poi possibly needs patched
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011

apache-commons-compress [mga2] - apache-commons-compress10 possibly needs patched
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6331

Ruby-related
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Several security issues, one possible packaging issue [mga2+cauldron]
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6487

No response has been received from packagers yet
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qt4 [mga2] - issue fixed upstream in 4.8.4
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7998

librdmacm [cauldron] - upstream patch linked in RedHat bug
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8415

squashfs-tools [mga2+cauldron] - patches for Cauldron available from Fedora, unsure about mga2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8448

libreoffice [mga2] - patch available from Debian
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7949

chromium/v8 [mga2+cauldron] - need upgraded to newest versions
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6927
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8567

In progress (help needed to finish)
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kdelibs4 [mga2] - upstream patches linked in RedHat bugs, we have one of the four in SVN
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7999

xen [mga2+cauldron] - several outstanding security issues need additional patches applied
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6931

openafs [mga2] - pam_afs is missing from the current build in updates_testing
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7085