-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 86-1       https://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                           Adam D. Barratt
August 31st, 2015
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Upcoming Debian 8 Update (8.2)

An update to Debian 8 is scheduled for Saturday, September 5th, 2015. As
of now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in
"jessie-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 "jessie-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 stable update adds a few important corrections to the following
packages:

    Package                         Reason

    akonadi                         Fix a bug that caused old files to be kept 
when they should be removed
    apache2                         Fix conffile logic for wheezy to jessie 
upgrades; fix -D[efined] or <Define>[d] variables lifetime accross restarts; 
mpm_event: Fix process deadlock when shutting down a worker; mpm_event: Fix 
crashes due to various race conditions
    apt                             Parse specific-arch dependencies correctly 
on single-arch systems; remove "first package seen is native package" 
assumption; fix endless loop in apt-get update that can cause disk fillup
    bareos                          Fix backup corruption on multi-volume jobs; 
add autopkgtests
    base-files                      Update for the point release
    binutils-mingw-w64              Apply upstream fix to handle Visual Studio 
DLLs
    bird                            Correctly migrate bird6.conf from bird6 
package
    cron                            cron.service: Use KillMode=process to kill 
only the daemon, not running jobs
    cross-gcc                       Require bash in rules.template makefile
    dbus                            Fix a memory leak when 
GetConnectionCredentials is called; stop dbus-monitor replying to 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer messages, including those that another process should 
have replied to
    debian-installer-launcher       Set the menu icon text in the source 
package to read "Install Debian jessie"
    designate                       Fix mDNS DoS through incorrect handling of 
large RecordSets [CVE-2015-5695]
    dovecot                         Fix SSL/TLS handshake failures leading to a 
crash of the login process with newer versions of OpenSSL [CVE-2015-3420]; fix 
mbox corruption issue
    ejabberd                        Fix logging of nicknames in muc logs and 
parsing of "ldap_dn_filter" option; postinst: restart on upgrade; logrotate: 
don't signal a non-running daemon
    flash-kernel                    Combine i.MX53 QSB and LOCO board entries, 
they are the same thing and the LOCO variant was missing DTB information, 
possibly causing issues during wheezy to jessie upgrades
    fusiondirectory                 Access javascript libraries via a path 
relative to FusionDirectory's base path
    glibc                           Fix pthread_mutex_trylock with lock 
elision; fix gprof entry point on ppc64el; fix a buffer overflow in getanswer_r 
[CVE-2015-1781]
    glusterfs                       Stop creating UNIX domain sockets as FIFOs 
on NFS
    gnome-terminal                  Open new tabs in working directory, rather 
than home directory
    gnutls28                        Fix a crash in VIA PadLock asm; fix 
GNUTLS-SA-2015-2, which allowed MD5 signatures (which are disabled by default) 
in the ServerKeyExchange message
    gosa                            Fix idGenerator for patterns like 
{%sn[3-6}-{%givenName[3-6]}; enable CSV / LDIF import on (non-Debian-Edu) clean 
installations by default
    groovy2                         Fix remote execution of untrusted code and 
possible DoS vulnerability [CVE-2015-3253]
    grub-installer                  Correctly propagate 
grub-installer/force-efi-extra-removable to installed system
    gtk+3.0                         Fix several crashes
    haproxy                         Fix a segfault when parsing a configuration 
file containing disabled proxy sections
    how-can-i-help                  Use HTTPS to connect to UDD
    kic                             configure: Do not add -L without argument 
to $LIBS
    lame                            Enable functions with SSE instructions to 
maintain their own properly aligned stack. Fixes crashes when called from the 
ocaml bindings
    libdatetime-timezone-perl       New upstream release
    libgee-0.8                      Fix default value of 
--enable-consistency-check, otherwise a very expensive debug option is turned 
on by default and would make a lot of applications unusably slow
    libio-socket-ssl-perl           Make PublicSuffix::_default_data thread safe
    libisocodes                     Fix GLib critical warning if the 
environment variable LANGUAGE is not set
    libvirt                         Teach virt-aa-helper to use TEMPLATE.qemu 
if the domain is kvm or kqemu; fix crash on live migration; allow access to 
libnl-3 configuration; report original error when QMP probing fails with new 
QEMU
    linux-ftpd-ssl                  Fix "NLST of empty directory results in 
segfault"
    lynx-cur                        Use gnutls_set_default_priority() instead 
of a custom priority string, so fixing GNUTLS-SA-2015-2 in GnuTLS does not 
break SSL support in lynx
    mesa                            Disable asynchronous DMA on radeonsi which 
can cause lockups
    motif                           Disable fix for upstream bug #1565 which 
caused segfaults in ddd and xpdf
    mozilla-gnome-keyring           Restore compatibility with newer Iceweasel 
versions
    nbd                             Fix authfile parsing
    nss                             Fix certificate chain generation to prefer 
stronger/newer certificates over weaker/older certs
    ocl-icd                         Fix "clSVMFree never called in OpenCL ICD"
    pdf.js                          Drop xul-ext-pdf.js package since it's not 
compatible with Iceweasel 38
    postgresql-9.1                  New upstream release
    postgresql-9.4                  New upstream release
    prosody                         Fix CNAME resolution
    python-apt                      Work around a cyclic reference from Cache 
to its methods; LFS fixes; fix splitting of multi-lines Binary fields in dsc 
files; arch-qualify in compare_to_version_in_cache(); fix 
apt.Package.installed_files for multi-arch packages
    python-keystoneclient           Fix S3token incorrect condition expression 
for ssl_insecure [CVE-2015-1852]
    python-keystonemiddleware       Fix S3Token TLS cert verification option 
not honored [CVE-2015-1852]
    python-reportlab                Correctly handle PNGs containing 
transparency
    python-swiftclient              Add missing dependency on 
python-pkg-resources
    r-cran-rcurl                    Build-Depend on libcurl4-openssl-dev, 
fixing issues with PEM certificate bundles
    rawtherapee                     Fix dcraw imput sanitization errors 
[CVE-2015-3885]
    requestpolicy                   Restore compatibility with newer Iceweasel 
versions
    rsyslog                         Disable transactions in ompgsql as they 
were not working properly
    ruby2.1                         Fix request hijacking vulnerability in 
Rubygems [CVE-2015-3900]
    syslinux                        Fix booting on some Chromebooks
    systemd                         Disable default DNS servers in 
systemd-resolve; use strictly versioned dependendency on libsystemd-dev for the 
transitional dev packages; udev: Increase udev event timeout to 180s
    tabmixplus                      Restore compatibility with newer Iceweasel 
versions
    tcpdump                         Fix -Z confirmation log being sent to 
stdout, where it can get mixed with pcap stream data if '-w -' is used
    torrus                          Revert broken patch refresh, thereby fixing 
rrdup_notify
    tzdata                          New upstream release
    ufraw                           Fix buffer overflow in ljpeg_start 
[CVE-2015-3885]
    unattended-upgrades             Make optional automatic-reboot work again; 
really fix adding of jessie-security
    wesnoth-1.10                    Disallow inclusion of .pbl files from WML 
[CVE-2015-5069, CVE-2015-5070]
    xemacs21                        Conflict against old transitional packages 
to make absolutely sure that they are removed before we try to upgrade; remove 
dependency from support to binary package since the binary package already has 
the equivalent dependency
    xserver-xorg-video-modesetting  Don't pretend to support rotation

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/stable.html>

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

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

    Package                    Reason

    criu                  Fast-moving target, too difficult to keep updated
    dactyl                Incompatible with newer Iceweasel versions
    fullscreen-extension  Incompatible with newer Iceweasel versions
    netty3.1              Dependency for non-present jetty
    php-zend-xml          Security issues; useless in Debian
    rubyfilter            Broken (empty) package


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

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Reply via email to