I've worked during October 2023 on the below listed packages, for Freexian LTS/ELTS [1]
Many thanks to Freexian and sponsors [2] for providing this opportunity! ELTS: ==== firmware-nonfree - ELA-981-1 This was a contiunation of DLA-3596-1, which I've released in September, this time for ELTS (jessie and stretch). The work for ELTS was based on the package for buster, therefore appoligises for the repeation of my last month's report, continuing the trend I've set last month :) Following Intels security advisory INTEL-SA-00766 several firmware blobs for some of their Wifi/Bluetooth products have been updated to fix several CVEs. Firmwareblobs provide their own challenges, as obviously there is no source to inspect to verify things. and addtional the vendor is not very clear in their communication which would help identifying the correct firmware blob, so the only information available was that the problem is "Fixed upstream in linux-firmware/20230804". Looking at the repository I could identify a few commits that were touching Intel firmware files to extract the updates files, and to cherry-pick them into an updated buster firmware-nonfree package. Feedback from the package maintainers was that this normal and the only thing we can do, unfortunatly. Firmwareblobs provide their own challenge, (yes, I'm repeating myself:) It seems that the Intel blob <-> kernel interface is using a versioned ABI, and the kernels only can cater a certain range. That means, that *some* of the updated firmware files will not be loadable by buster's kernel, a thing that I only figured out _after_ I integrated the files already into the packaging and checked with the linux kernel sources. I left them in in the hope that there are folks that will still benefit from them, however, I encourage people to verify their setup so that they know if they are still vulnerable. Unfortunatly, this is all we can do when non-free binary blobs are involved. nghttp2/stretch - ELA-984-1 (CVE-2023-44487) Arstechnica titled this CVE has been as "Biggest DDoSes of all time generated by protocol 0-day in HTTP/2" [0] and also the blog article from cloudfare [1] is an interesting read about this vulnerablity. As this vulnerablity is a flaw in the HTTP/2 protocol, many vendors are affected, so nghttp2. The backporting of the upstream patch was quite straight forward, and their extensive test suite helped a lot too, even one of their testcases misbehaved and needed debugging into it and was determined to be a false positive. However, a failing test case is always concerning I was looking for additional ways to test the fix. Fortunatly I've found a github repository claiming to be a detection tool for the vulnerabilty [2]. Unfortunatly this is quite a stretch, as that tool only checks if the server support RST_STREAM and beside that obviously servers not supporting RST_STREAM (are there any?) it has no meaning at all whether the the server is vulnerable or not. I've rewritten the script so that it can test if a server rate limit RST_STREAM, and so becames a test for the problem at hand. The script is here: https://paste.debian.net/1295129/ With that I could confirm that, without the patch, nghttp2 is suspectible to the attack, and with the patch it is no longer. [0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/how-ddosers-used-the-http-2-protocol-to-deliver-attacks-of-unprecedented-size/ [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/ [2] https://github.com/bcdannyboy/CVE-2023-44487 LTS: ==== freerdp2: (DLA-3606-1) - gnome-boxes (DLA-3607-1) - vinagre (DLA-3608-1) Started working on this package in September and continued in October, fixing this package caused a lot of effort. The package had 60 CVE'S open, and only a few have spelled out the explicit patches that are required to fix them I first investigated if it is possible to pull in a new upstream version, for example 2.3.0. As reported last month already, the reverse dependencies vinagre and gnome-boxes started to act up, e.g showing only black screens or becoming unstable and some research found that this is problems were with these programs, not with freerdp2, and patches could be found, applied and uploaded. (as DLA-3607 and DLA-3608) I've also tried 2.11.1 -- thanks to sunweaver for providing it quickly -- but this caused buster's remmina to occasinally crash, and without finding the reason for it, it was better to play it safe and stay at 2.3.0, and backport the remaining issues. For that I've received a lot of help from upstream (thanks diget!), identifing the commits needed to fix several CVEs. Unfortunatly when finishing the package, I missed a few CVEs that where not fixed by 2.3.0 and not in the list from diget, and therefore there will be an subsequent upload later. [1] https://www.freexian.com/lts/ [2] https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/#sponsors Cheers, -- tobi
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