Hi Jean-Michel, Thank you for your prompt response.
2016-09-09 20:25 GMT+02:00 Jean-Michel Vourgère (debian) <nir...@debian.org>: > Hi > > On Debian, the affected php script is deployed as > /usr/share/doc/libphp-adodb/examples/test.php.gz > and NOT in a browser reachable location: > > It's not in /usr/share/php/adodb/ with the rest of the library and > /usr/share/doc/ is no longer reachable since a long while, if I remember > correctly. > > Upstream wrote: >> As a workaround until hotfix is released, we recommend all users to remove >> the whole ./tests directory; it is only used for development purposes and is >> not necessary for normal ADOdb operations. > > So I don't think Debian even qualify as "vulnerable". Agreed, the installed package is not vulnerable as installed. > > Sure, if you unzip the example test file and create a reachable script based > on > that, you will have a problem. Note that fixing the example on which you > created your affected script will not immediately save you... > > I plan to work on packaging 5.20.6 (for sid) tomorrow I guess. Thank you for taking care of that. > > Do you still think the update would be nice to have in wheezy-security? I don't consider this a high priority issue either, but the package can be updated with the proper example and a DLA can be issued to raise attention of system administrators. Cheers, Balint > > > > On Friday 09 September 2016 01:17:03 Balint Reczey 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 libphp-adodb: >> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4855 >> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0000000-B85664 >> >> Would you like to take care of this yourself? >> >> If yes, please follow the workflow we have defined here: >> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development >> >> If that workflow is a burden to you, feel free to just prepare an >> updated source package and send it to debian-lts@lists.debian.org >> (via a debdiff, or with an URL pointing to the source package, >> or even with a pointer to your packaging repository), and the members >> of the LTS team will take care of the rest. Indicate clearly whether you >> have tested the updated package or not. >> >> If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we >> will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would >> like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released. >> >> You can also opt-out from receiving future similar emails in your >> answer and then the LTS Team will take care of libphp-adodb updates >> for the LTS releases. (In case we don't get any answer for months, >> we may also take it as an opt-out, too.) >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Balint Reczey, >> on behalf of the Debian LTS team. >> >> PS: A member of the LTS team might start working on this update at >> any point in time. You can verify whether someone is registered >> on this update in this file: >> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/dla-needed.txt?view=ma >> rkup
