On 08.10.2015 13:00, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 12:20:27PM +0200, Daniel Stender wrote: >> Hello, >> >> there was a bug reported on gummi/0.6.5-3 [1], the program uses >> predictable filenames in /tmp [2]. >> >> I'm going to fix that problem now (upstream is dead). Question: do >> we have a (minor) security related problem here, which also needs to >> be fixed for stable? I've learned from another case that this might >> be a problematic race condition [3]. > > Thanks for going to fix this in unstable already. For wheezy and > jessie: This issue does not warrant on it's own a DSA, in particular > since such issues are mitigated in Debian: cf. > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#security > > But: Could you fix this in wheezy and jessie via the proposed-updates > mechanism? See > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#upload-stable > > Regards, > Salvatore
Thx for the quick reply! Yes, o.k., I'm going to fix this as non-dsa over proposed updates. I guess a CVE request on this is not necessary, is it? Are you going to create an entry in the security tracker, anyway? DS -- 4096R/DF5182C8 46CB 1CA8 9EA3 B743 7676 1DB9 15E0 9AF4 DF51 82C8 LPI certified Linux admin (LPI000329859 64mz6f7kt4) http://www.danielstender.com/blog/ -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
