[Mageia-dev] Security updates - help needed!

David Walser luigiwalser at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 6 23:51:15 CEST 2012


I've cleared the low-hanging fruit again and handled the ones I can handle, clearing out most of the in-progress ones.

The rest of these need someone to step up and take responsibility for them if they're gonna get done.  Thanks to all that have helped so far.

......... 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

roundcubemail - issues fixed upstream in 0.8.1, or 0.7.3 + patch from Fedora
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7246

zabbix - issues fixed in 1.8.15 upstream, two possible patches linked in bug
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7277

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

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

libgnomesu - re-diffing the patch might be non-trivial since OpenSuSE has many other patches too
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7068

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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java-1.7.0-openjdk - IcedTea needs updated in Mageia 2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7278

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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openafs - patches available from Debian, plus a newer version is in Mageia 1 than Mageia 2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7085

openswan - patches are available from RedHat, one needs re-diffing
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7095

tor - issues fixed upstream in 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.2.38
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5351

erlang - issue fixed in R14B03 (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7062

fuse - patches available from RedHat (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7063

blender - patch available from Fedora (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7065

libvoikko - issue fixed in 3.2.1 (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7067

php-ZendFramework - issues fixed upstream in 1.11.6 (only Mageia 1 is affected)
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7083

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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xen - more patches need applied in Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 branches
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6931



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