Hi, sorry for the late reply.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:50:15PM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: pu > > Dear stable release team, > > I would like to upload a new release of nss-pam-ldapd for squeeze that > fixes a few bugs. The fixes below (apart from the first one) should all > be very straightforward. > > (1) extra checking of overflows of numeric values retrieved from LDAP > This change was developed and tested by Redhat and has been in > upstream releases 0.7.16 and 0.8.4 (and is also present in the > version currently in testing). > The diff in 0.7.16 which should apply without issues to 0.7.15: > http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?revision=1600&view=revision > svn diff -c 1600 http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd What's the consequence if we don't include this? I.e. what does this solve exactly? > (2) fix gecos buffer length and make some other buffers have a > consistent size (this is #640781) > This change was in 0.8.5 and is scheduled for a next 0.7 upstream > release. The bug reporter requested this change to go in a squeeze > point release. > The diff: > http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?revision=1727&view=revision > svn diff -c 1727 http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd ACK. > (3) fix two possible NULL pointer dereferences (not very common > scenario) > These changes were in 0.8.5 and are scheduled for a next 0.7 > upstream release. > The diffs: > http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?revision=1728&view=revision > http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?revision=1730&view=revision > svn diff -c 1728 http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd ACK. > svn diff -c 1730 http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd ACK. > (4) increase buffer size for pam_authz_search and ensure log message > isn't cut short (this is Ubuntu bug #951343) > These changes were in 0.7.16 and 0.8.7. > The diffs: > http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?revision=1629&view=revision > http://arthurdejong.org/viewvc/nss-pam-ldapd?revision=1648&view=revision > svn diff -c 1629 http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd That seems gratious and is IMHO not suitable. > svn diff -c 1648 http://arthurdejong.org/svn/nss-pam-ldapd ACK. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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