Hi Stefan, On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:44:25PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > Hi Ola, > > On Friday, 23 December 2016 23:56:45 CET Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are > > currently open in the Wheezy version of apache2: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8743 > > > > Would you like to take care of this yourself? > > The fix for that is very invasive and may well break some things. I would > wait > with a backport until the fix has seen more exposure, both upstream and in > stretch (the fix will migrate from sid in a few days). > > Also, there is some work upstream to get the changes backported to 2.2 in a > separate 2.2.x-merge-http-strict branch [1]. But it has not landed in the > 2.2.x branch, yet. > > I will share with you any insights I get from backporting the changes to > jessie. But it is somewhat unlikely that I will have time to do the backport > to wheezy myself.
I was about to start with this fix for apache2 but if upstream prepares a separate branch I'll gladly pick another package for the moment. Thanks for the update and please keep us in the loop for any further progress either upstream or with a port for jessie. Cheers, -- Guido
