Review for Source Package: jemalloc
[Summary]
The package is in good shape, no red flags but since it is doing memory
management it should
get a review from security team.
MIR team ACK
This does need a security review, so I'll assign ubuntu-security
List of specific binary packages to be promoted to main: libjemalloc2,
libjemalloc2
Specific binary packages built, but NOT to be promoted to main: None
Notes:
- The package should get a team bug subscriber before being promoted
[Rationale, Duplication and Ownership]
- The package is required as a dependency for tmux and bind9. There is no
better alternative in main providing the same functionality.
- Server team is committed to own long term maintenance of this package.
- The rationale given in the report seems valid and useful for Ubuntu
[Dependencies]
OK:
- no other Dependencies to MIR due to this
- no -dev/-debug/-doc packages that need exclusion
- No dependencies in main that are only superficially tested requiring
more tests now.
Problems: None
[Embedded sources and static linking]
OK:
- no embedded source present
- no static linking
- does not have unexpected Built-Using entries
- not a go package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
Problems: None
[Security]
OK:
- history of CVEs does not look concerning
- does not run a daemon as root
- does not use webkit1,2
- does not use lib*v8 directly
- does not parse data formats (files [images, video, audio,
xml, json, asn.1], network packets, structures, ...) from
an untrusted source.
- does not expose any external endpoint (port/socket/... or similar)
- does not process arbitrary web content
- does not use centralized online accounts
- does not integrate arbitrary javascript into the desktop
- does not deal with system authentication (eg, pam), etc)
- does not deal with security attestation (secure boot, tpm, signatures)
- does not deal with cryptography (en-/decryption, certificates,
signing, ...)
Problems: None
[Common blockers]
OK:
- does not FTBFS currently
- does have a test suite that runs at build time
- test suite fails will fail the build upon error.
- does have a non-trivial test suite that runs as autopkgtest
- This does not need special HW for build or test
- no new python2 dependency
Problems: None
[Packaging red flags]
OK:
- Ubuntu does not carry a delta
- symbols tracking is in place.
- debian/watch is present and looks ok (if needed, e.g. non-native)
- Upstream update history is good
- Debian/Ubuntu update history is slow
- the current release is packaged
- promoting this does not seem to cause issues for MOTUs that so far
maintained the package
- no massive Lintian warnings
- debian/rules is rather clean
- It is not on the lto-disabled list
Problems: None
[Upstream red flags]
OK:
- no Errors/warnings during the build
- no incautious use of malloc/sprintf (as far as we can check it)
- no use of sudo, gksu, pkexec, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (usage is OK inside
TODO: tests)
no use of user nobody
- no use of setuid / setgid
- no important open bugs (crashers, etc) in Debian or Ubuntu
- no dependency on webkit, qtwebkit or libseed
- not part of the UI for extra checks
- no translation present, but none needed for this case (user visible)?
Problems: None
** Changed in: jemalloc (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Ioanna Alifieraki (joalif) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: jemalloc (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Security Team (ubuntu-security)
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