Re: [Bug-tar] possible fixes for CVE-2016-6321

2016-10-29 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for the heads-up. Yes, it appears the 2003 change was not sufficiently paranoid about ".." in member names. Luckily, the tar manual still documents the pre-2003 behavior, so we can restore that behavior as a simple bug fix. I installed the attached patch into Savannah as one way to do

possible fixes for CVE-2016-6321

2016-10-29 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi all, (Debian maintainers, Debian security teams and upstream bug mailing list in CC.) I have added notes regarding the "/../" mismatch security issue in the security tracker here: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6321 Basically, there's a proof of concept here:

Re: Wheezy update of sendmail?

2016-10-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:59:47AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hello dear maintainer(s), > > the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are > currently open in the Wheezy version of sendmail: > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/sendmail > > Would you

Re: fixing in oldstable before unstable (was Re: Wheezy update of tre?)

2016-10-29 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 02:36:33PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2016-10-21 06:27:07, Guido Günther wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > [... nice template ... although maybe not CC the list?] > > > I'd just use bin/report-vuln ? > > Did you start

Re: Bug#840691: ghostscript and evince/libspectre problem

2016-10-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:05:25 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi > > I now have uploaded the version (see previously sent debdiff) to > security master and will release the regression update once all archs > have build the packages. Hello, I have just tested the new revision