On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 6:29 AM Joe Orton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The latest release of libapreq2 (v2.13) has an outstanding security
> issue, CVE-2019-12412, which was fixed in apreq trunk at
> https://svn.apache.org/r1866760 and subsequently assigned a CVE name
> when a Debian user & maintainer noticed it was a security issue.
>
> libapreq2 trunk was folded into httpd trunk and this fix was merged
> there in https://svn.apache.org/r1867761 - but note this does not affect
> httpd 2.4.x releases, which do not include libapreq2.
>
> It looks to me like the last attempt to ship a libapreq2 standalone
> release - v2.14 - in December 2016 stalled due to lack of PMC votes
> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-apreq-dev/201612.mbox/browse
>
> libapreq2 has a v2.14 branch here
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/apreq/branches/v2.14/ and it
> looks like the only substantive change between that branch is the above
> security fix, plus r1867789.
>
> It appears apreq used a one-branch-per-release repos structure which is
> a bit odd but no reason not to follow that; I propose to follow
> build/release to make a v2.15 release based off trunk, and then try to
> get +3 PMC votes for that.
>

Thanks Joe. If someone tries a release I will sniff-test and vote.

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