Duncan wrote:

OK, the following was in the GLSA

  -------------------------------------------------------------------
    Package                  /  Vulnerable  /              Unaffected
   -------------------------------------------------------------------
 1  emul-linux-x86-baselibs        < 2.2                       >= 2.2
   -------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Package 1 only applies to AMD64 users.

I upgraded to 2.2.2 yesterday.  Now, it wants to downgrade to 2.1.2, which
the above says will still be vulnerable.

Looking at the changelog, it appears 2.2.x had quite a number of bugs. There's a statement in there that /appears/ to suggest that the fixes for
the zlib security issue were backported to the new 2.1.2, but we don't
have an updated GLSA officially confirming that.  As this is a security
issue, I'm sure folks can understand why I'm a bit leery of trusting a
changelog entry that's contradicting an official GLSA.

Is the 2.1.2 legit and fixed, or is somebody trying to man-in-the-middle
things?  Assuming it's legit, would it be possible to have a duly and
officially signed GLSA update to that effect?

In the admittedly unlikely event that it's /not/ legit, then we have a
/very/ serious man-in-the-middle cracking attempt going on!

by my experience, version 2.2.2 breaks my mplayer32 and firefox-bin.
Errors about missing libgobject.so.0 and libslang.so.0.
Both libs was present in the system.
I had to downgrade and both works well.

michalz
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