On 13 April 2018 at 11:51, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: | On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:14:18PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > Further update. I took some files from the new (in-progress, unfinished it | > seems) upstream of libxls at https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/, and got | > some advice from the libxls maintainer. | > | > He also put new issue tickets up, one per CVE: | > https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues | > | > And that builds. It does not pass all unit tests (R / CRAN packages tend to | > have lots of those) but 'almost': 4 fail, 348 pass. | > | > We could release this, methinks. What is your recommendation (and it has | > been years since I last had to do a security release so help is as always | > appreciated). | | Do all of these patches/vulnerabilities apply to the version in stable?
I took a first look. It might just be doable. | Then I'd say let's fix this via security.debian.org, see | https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#bug-security-building | for some references. Where would I get chroot for stable? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
