Quoting Steve Kemp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 06:16:00PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Hello dear Security team (and ftpmasters, and shadow package maintainers),
> > 
> > Being back from 2 days holiday I discover CVE-2006-3378 which has just
> > been revealed to our attention (#359174 in the BTS).
> 
>   I guess you mean #379174 here?

Yeah, sorry. The stress of discovering this after a quiet 2-days
week-end can explain, I think.

> 
> > What I propose to you, as soon as we have a fix for CVE-2006-3378:
> > 
> > 
> > -urgently destroy 4.0.3-31sarge6 and 31sarge7 from the
> >  proposed-updates queue. Need ftpmasters collaboration with high urgency
> > -the security team, or the shadow package team, prepares
> >  4.0.3-31sarge6 with the fix for CVE-2006-3378 *ALONE*
> > -the shadow package team prepares 4.0.3-31sarge7 with BOTH updates and
> >  sends it to the proposed-updates queue so that it can be picked by the
> >  SRM team when they're ready to update sarge
> > 
> 
>   Sounds fine from the security point of view.  Once a patch is
>  available at least.


Waiting for it, yes.

The first key point is the ftpmaster action...It will make things
clearer and avoid a big mess.


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