Re: Request of authorisation for an upload of Snort in stable to fix 503992

2009-03-22 Thread Luk Claes
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Hi release team, Hi Javier I would like to make an upload to stable to fix bug 503992 of Snort. Basicly, this bug was introduced with the patch for a security vulnerability but introduced a sigsegv due to an improper call to a function. This error kills

Re: Request of authorisation for an upload of Snort in stable to fix 503992

2009-03-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Luk Claes: I would like to make an upload to stable to fix bug 503992 of Snort. Basicly, this bug was introduced with the patch for a security vulnerability but introduced a sigsegv due to an improper call to a function. This error kills the Snort IDS as soon as it receives fragmented

Re: Bug#503992: Request of authorisation for an upload of Snort in stable to fix 503992

2009-03-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 03:39:40PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Luk Claes: Any reason why this regression caused by a security upload, should not be fixed by a security upload (I've put the Security Team in Cc)? No reason, I just thought this would not be considered a security bug. It's

Re: Bug#503992: Request of authorisation for an upload of Snort in stable to fix 503992

2009-03-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: It's probably a security bug on its own, so it probably should go through the DSA process, even though the bug was introduced through t-p-u before the lenny release. Since Neil answered already I uploaded the packages to stable using the patch I sent. If

Request of authorisation for an upload of Snort in stable to fix 503992

2009-03-21 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Hi release team, I would like to make an upload to stable to fix bug 503992 of Snort. Basicly, this bug was introduced with the patch for a security vulnerability but introduced a sigsegv due to an improper call to a function. This error kills the Snort IDS as soon as it receives fragmented