Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-06-17 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:11:09PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Okay, then we should release a DSA for it, so that the breakage is more easily blamed on this particular change, and that it's less confusing if we have to issue follow-up DSAs. Perhaps late May or early June would be a

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-06-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Dominic Hargreaves: Okay, then we should release a DSA for it, so that the breakage is more easily blamed on this particular change, and that it's less confusing if we have to issue follow-up DSAs. Perhaps late May or early June would be a convenient release date? Wasn't the earlier

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-05-02 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:33:35PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Adam D. Barratt: I do share Florian's concern about the potential breakage as a result of the change. Do we have any idea how many packages in

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-05-01 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Adam D. Barratt: I do share Florian's concern about the potential breakage as a result of the change. Do we have any idea how many packages in {old,}stable would be affected and to what degree? Particularly in the case of

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam D. Barratt: I do share Florian's concern about the potential breakage as a result of the change. Do we have any idea how many packages in {old,}stable would be affected and to what degree? Particularly in the case of oldstable, with its four month update cycle, fixing packages broken

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-30 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Adam D. Barratt: I do share Florian's concern about the potential breakage as a result of the change. Do we have any idea how many packages in {old,}stable would be affected and to what degree? I don't think we have any

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 12:29 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:52:31AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:18:36PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/171010 I'm therefore downgrading the severity.

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-22 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:52:31AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: severity 622817 important thanks On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:18:36PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Niko Tyni: Security team, I assume this is going to be fixed through a DSA? I don't think this is a security bug on its

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Niko Tyni: Security team, I assume this is going to be fixed through a DSA? I don't think this is a security bug on its own. It should be trivial to port this to squeeze and lenny. I'll try to prepare the debdiffs on Sunday, but if somebody else wants to do that, feel free. If this bug

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-19 Thread Niko Tyni
severity 622817 important thanks On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:18:36PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Niko Tyni: Security team, I assume this is going to be fixed through a DSA? I don't think this is a security bug on its own. Yes, turns out upstream thinks similarly.

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-17 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:41:02PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: Please note that the sid fix can't currently be uploaded on its own because of a db4.7 related problem (just filed as #622916). Partly as a reminder to myself: I plan to merge this into experimental once the upload to sid has been

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-16 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:41:02PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:45:55PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Package: perl Version: 5.10.1-19 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole CVE description: The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc,

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-15 Thread Niko Tyni
tag 622817 patch fixed-upstream forwarded 622817 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=87336 thanks On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:45:55PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Package: perl Version: 5.10.1-19 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole CVE

Bug#622817: perl: CVE-2011-1487: taint laundering in lc, uc

2011-04-14 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: perl Version: 5.10.1-19 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole CVE description: The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc, and (4) ucfirst functions in Perl 5.10.x, 5.11.x, and 5.12.x through 5.12.3, and 5.13.x through 5.13.11, do not apply the taint attribute to the