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and subject line Bug#768165: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #744351,
regarding matrixssl: Uterly old package, with many known security issues
to be marked as done.
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Source: matrixssl
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole
Dear Maintainer,
the version currently packaged in Debian is 5 years old, while many
security issues were fixed in the upstream package meanwhile. I came
to know the situation after reading the following research article:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak14.pdf
They showed that matrixssl is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks
with v1 certificates (page 2). Indeed, a new version of matrixssl
(3.6.0) was released on april 9 to fix that issue.
(the information is thus fully public already)
But actually, since the currently packaged version is 1.8, released
back in 2009, I'm not completely sure of whether this perticular flaw
was already packaged at that time.
In my mind, such an ancient "security"-related package is deceiving to
our users. I think that this package should either be updated, or
simply removed from the archive. But Jessie should not be released
with that as is.
Bye, Mt.
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Version: 1.8.8-1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package matrixssl has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/768165
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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