To be specific, the KDE incident occurred on June 4th, 2026. I had
spotted on the KDE security advisories page
(https://kde.org/info/security/#advisories) that there was at least five
critical security holes in Okular reported in the middle of May, also
that year. Here are the exact advisories in question:
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20260511-5.txt
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20260511-4.txt
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20260511-3.txt
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20260511-2.txt
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20260511-1.txt
A patch had already been shipped out by the KDE team for the issues
named:
https://commits.kde.org/okular/49cccdec814b2ddb0a403b63994114f09b007a2c
But checking with the Debian security patches at the time, it was not
backported whatsoever, nor was it patched even in Debian Sid. Now, this
problem has since been fixed, but it did make me start to worry about
Debian development and whether things could be done better.
All that said, I am not a developer whatsoever. I do not fully know the
Debian processes for package bug checking and security patching. I had
just wondered though if the Debian developer community at large were
beginning to see a larger problem or if I was just jumping at shadows. I
do not want to see Debian begin to lose support or become less reliable
and secure. In my opinion, it has been the gold standard for Linux
distros for so very long now.
But anyway. If there isn't really a problem and the above incident was
just a fluke, let me know and I'll leave this alone. Thank you for your
time.
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Arnox, Sanctuary Administrator
