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Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 85-1       https://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                          Adam D. Barratt
August 31st, 2015
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Upcoming Debian 7 Update (7.9)

An update to Debian 7 is scheduled for Saturday, September 5th, 2015. As
of now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in
"wheezy-proposed-updates", which is carried by all official mirrors.

Please note that packages published through security.debian.org are not
listed, but will be included if possible. Some of the updates below are
also already available through "wheezy-updates".

Testing and feedback would be appreciated. Bugs should be filed in the
Debian Bug Tracking System, but please make the Release Team aware of
them by copying "[email protected]" on your mails.

The point release will also include a rebuild of debian-installer.


Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
-----------------------

This oldstable update adds a few important corrections to the following
packages:

    Package                       Reason

    amd64-microcode               Update included microcode
    base-files                    Update for the point release
    bley                          Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org from the default 
configuration, as it's been shut down
    clamav                        New upstream version; new upstream release; 
fix division by zero and pointer arithmetic overflow in the bundled libmspack
    commons-httpclient            Fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6153 issue 
with CN checking [CVE-2014-3577]
    conky                         Declare Breaks+Replaces relationship against 
conky (<< 1.8.0-1) to fix upgrade path from Lenny to Squeeze and then Wheezy
    debian-security-support       Add package to wheezy
    debmirror                     Support "new" Contents file location; support 
HTTPS; add --keyring, --include-field and --exclude-field options
    debootstrap                   Add support for Stretch; resolve mount point 
symlinks relative to the target chroot before unmounting them
    didjvu                        Fix insecure temp file use when calling c44
    exactimage                    Fix integer overflow in the ljpeg_start 
function in dcraw [CVE-2015-3885]
    frogr                         Use SSL endpoints for Flickr API; fix crash 
in gcrypt
    gamera                        Fix insecure temp file use [CVE-2014-1937]
    gnome-shell                   Fix week number computation
    hp2xx                         Fix crashes
    httpcomponents-client         Fix check that the server hostname matches 
domain name in the subject's CN field [CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577]
    ikiwiki                       Fix XSS in openid selector; backport blogspam 
plugin from experimental, because the version in wheezy is no longer usable
    intel-microcode               Update included microcode
    ircd-hybrid                   Disable SSL3 to mitigate against the POODLE 
attack
    lame                          Check for invalid input sample rate and 
number of channels, avoid malformed wav causing floating point exception, fix 
check for sample rate ratio being an integer
    lcms                          Repack to remove non-free test files and 
colour profiles; fix DoS [CVE-2013-4160]
    libdatetime-timezone-perl     New upstream release
    libdbd-pg-perl                Fix interoperability problem between wheezy 
clients and newer PostgreSQL versions
    libfcgi                       Avoid stack-smashing by using poll() rather 
than select()
    libraw                        Fix integer overflow in the ljpeg_start 
function [CVE-2015-3885]
    linux                         Update to stable release 3.2.68; drm, agp: 
Update to 3.4.106; [rt] Update to 3.2.68-rt99
    linux-ftpd-ssl                Fix "NLST of empty directory results in 
segfault"
    maven                         Use HTTPS by default to download artifacts 
from the Maven Central repository
    mdbtools                      Fix overflow in some memo fields and output 
of binary data
    mediatomb                     Disable user interface by default
    mercurial                     Fix "errors in handling case-sensitive 
directories allow for remote code execution on pull" [CVE-2014-9390]
    mozilla-noscript              Fix enumeration of scripts with Iceweasel >= 
35
    netcf                         Fix ipcalc_netmask; prevent a memory leak 
when listing interfaces
    open-vm-tools                 Handle structure changes in newer kernel 
releases (d_alias to d_u.d_alias)
    openafs                       Fix the kernel module build when d_alias is 
in the d_u union; fix potential file corruption of mmapped files
    opencv                        Update license information for the gpu module
    openvswitch                   Fix build of openvswitch-datapath-dkms
    osc                           Fix shell injection [CVE-2015-0778]
    partconf                      Exclude CD/DVD drives from partition search
    pdf2djvu                      Fix insecure temp file use when calling c44
    pgbouncer                     Fix remote crash - invalid packet order 
causes lookup of NULL pointer [CVE-2015-4054]
    phpbb3                        Fix CSRF vulnerability [CVE-2015-1432] and 
CSS injection [CVE-2015-1431]; fix possible redirect vulnerability 
[CVE-2015-3880]
    policyd-weight                Remove use of obsolete rhsbl.ahbl.org RBL; 
update list of default RBLs in the manpage to match reality
    postgresql-9.1                New upstream release
    rawtherapee                   Fix dcraw imput sanitization errors 
[CVE-2015-3885]
    spamassassin                  Remove references to ahbl.org DNSBL, which 
has ceased operation
    ssl-cert                      Use SHA2 for newly generated certificates; 
set umask to make sure that the generated key is not world-readable for a short 
timespan while make-ssl-cert runs
    sudo                          Recognize lenny and squeeze unmodified 
sudoers to avoid dpkg questions about modified conffiles on upgrades to wheezy
    tcllib                        Fix XSS vulnerability in the html module for 
<textarea/> elements
    tomcat7                       Fix FTBFS error by making sure SSL unit tests 
use TLS protocols; re-generate expired test certificates
    tzdata                        New upstream release
    unrar-nonfree                 Fix a symlink directory traversal 
vulnerability
    unzip                         Fix "unzip thinks some files are symlinks", 
buffer overflow and crash in zipinfo
    user-mode-linux               Rebuild against current kernel
    vigor                         Use libc's regex routines rather than the 
bundled ones, to avoid needing to apply security patches independently
    vpim                          Build for ruby 1.9 (Wheezy's default version)
    wesnoth-1.10                  Disallow inclusion of .pbl files from WML 
[CVE-2015-5069, CVE-2015-5070]
    wireless-regdb                Update included data

A complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with
rationale is on the preparation page for this revision:

  <https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/oldstable.html>

Removed packages
----------------

The following packages will be removed due to circumstances beyond our
control:

    Package                    Reason

    cia-clients         Useless as cia.vc is gone
    get-iplayer         Broken by content provider changes
    typo3-src           No longer supported


If you encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with
the Debian Release Team at "[email protected]".

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