Public bug reported: Please remove libui-dialog-perl and its reverse depends macchanger-gtk from Ubuntu 18.04.
libui-dialog-perl was removed from Debian Testing in November 2016 for a security bug originally reported in 2008. The bug was apparently fixed in 1.13 but no one cares for this package. I mean it could be trivially NMU'd in Debian, but… its only reverse dependency is macchanger-gtk which was last uploaded in 2009. macchanger-gtk is a simple perl gtk2 app with the source code partially written in Spanish. The app doesn't use great English and is not translated. The homepage listed in the Debian packaging no longer works. The program needs to be either run as root or with gksu (a Recommends) but that won't work with the Wayland session that Ubuntu will presumably default to in 18.10. References ---------- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libui-dialog-perl https://bugs.debian.org/496448 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=107364 https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/macchanger-gtk https://sources.debian.org/src/macchanger-gtk/unstable/ ** Affects: libui-dialog-perl (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: macchanger-gtk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bionic ** Also affects: macchanger-gtk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Please remove libui-dialog-perl and its reverse depends macchanger-gtk from Ubuntu 18.04. libui-dialog-perl was removed from Debian Testing in November 2016 for a security bug originally reported in 2008. The bug was apparently fixed in 1.13 but no one cares for this package. I mean it could be trivially NMU'd in Debian, but… its only reverse dependency is macchanger-gtk which was last uploaded in 2009. macchanger-gtk is a simple perl gtk2 app with the source code partially written in Spanish. The app doesn't use great English and is not translated. The homepage listed in the Debian packaging no longer works. The program needs to be either run as root or with gksu (a Recommends) but that won't work with the Wayland session that Ubuntu will presumably default to in 18.10. + + References + ---------- + https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libui-dialog-perl + https://bugs.debian.org/496448 + https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=107364 + + https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/macchanger-gtk + https://sources.debian.org/src/macchanger-gtk/unstable/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765178 Title: Please remove libui-dialog-perl; open security vulnerability To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libui-dialog-perl/+bug/1765178/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
