Dear Raphaël Hertzog;

Peter Degen-Portnoy of the Black Duck Open Hub development team here.  We 
maintain Ohcount and are aware of the defect. An issue has been opened in the 
GitHub repository for Ohcount: 
https://github.com/blackducksoftware/ohcount/issues/57

Work is currently underway to address the defect.

Sincerely,


Peter Degen-Portnoy


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Black Duck Software

Peter Degen-Portnoy

Software Engineering Manager / Open Hub Team Lead
Black Duck Software
Black Duck Open Hub<https://www.openhub.net/>



On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:40:11 +0100 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello Sylvestre,
>
> The Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are
> currently open in the Wheezy version of ohcount:
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16926
>
> Would you like to take care of this yourself?
>
> I tried to file an upstream bug as a first step (since there is not patch
> available yet) but there is no upstream bug tracker apparently... and last
> upstream activity dates back to 2010. I pinged the project owner on
> sourceforge with its integrated messaging feature but I'm not sure that I
> will get any reply back.
>
> Do you have contacts with the upstream authors ?
>
> In any case, if you want to handle the wheezy upload, then
> please follow the workflow we have defined here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
>
> If that workflow is a burden to you, feel free to just prepare an
> updated source package and send it to debian-...@lists.debian.org
> (via a debdiff, or with an URL pointing to the source package,
> or even with a pointer to your packaging repository), and the members
> of the LTS team will take care of the rest. Indicate clearly whether you
> have tested the updated package or not.
>
> If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we
> will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would
> like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released.
>
> You can also opt-out from receiving future similar emails in your
> answer and then the LTS Team will take care of ohcount updates
> for the LTS releases.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Raphaël Hertzog,
> on behalf of the Debian LTS team.
>
> PS: A member of the LTS team might start working on this update at
> any point in time. You can verify whether someone is registered
> on this update in this file:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/dla-needed.txt?view=markup
> --
> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
>
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>
>

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