On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 01:31:27PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 05:19:03PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:24:55AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > We usually mark affected CVE as <end-of-life> in data/CVE/list and just > > > > add the package to security-support-ended.deb8 in > > > > debian-security-support. We then upload new versions of the package > > > > periodically and announce it via DLA. I believe now is a good time to > > > > do it. > > > Thanks for the information. I will start working on it today. > > > > As any DD can commit to debian-security-support.git and also can upload > > that package, just make sure to call it a team upload in d/changelog to > > appease lintian and possibly other tools. > > > I had not yet seen this message so I already submitted a MR. Should I > close that and make a direct commit? > > > And then it would be ideal to upload the package to unstable and then > > file a SRM bug to update the package in stretch, in addition to > > uploading to jessie. (Probably this should also result in a DLA, not > > 100% sure though. Thoughts & comments definitly welcome.) > > > > Looking at the previous updates, a DLA seems appropriate. I am in the > process of drafting the text. > > > I believe it's fine if the version contraints (package version in > > unstable higher than testing higher than stable higher than oldstable) > > are temporarily not met, but I also believe it's important that they are > > in the long run & most of the time. > > > > If doing all this work is too much or tedious to you, please shout and I > > will be happy to finish this. Please just do at least the initial > > change in git to security-support-ended.deb8. > > > If I close the MR and commit directly, is it then a simple matter of > build and upload to unstable? That is, no other special steps are > required? > Some additional follow-up:
- Can I go ahead and mark the CVE in question as <end-of-life> in data/CVE/list even before the update to debian-security-support is complete? - Any feedback on this proposed DLA text? Package : debian-security-support Version : 2019.11.15~deb8u1 debian-security-support, the Debian security support coverage checker, has been updated in jessie. This marks the end of life of the libqb package in jessie. A recently reported vulnerability against libqb which allows users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack cannot be adequately addressed in libqb in jessie. Upstream no longer supports this version and no packages in jessie depend upon libqb, thus making it a leaf package. We recommend that if your systems or applications depend upon the libqb package provided from the Debian archive that you upgrade your systems to a more recent Debian release or find an alternate and up to date source of libqb packages. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
