Re: Wheezy update of libxml2?
Hi LTS team
I have started to look into CVE-2016-9318. The solution to this
problem is to introduce a new option that make it possible to disallow
any external entity references. As this is a library it means that all
applications have to be updated to utilize this. Also in many
situations this is actually not advisable unless this is an admin
decision so a new configuration option is needed for all such
applications.
Unless anyone object I will mark CVE-2016-9318 as no-dsa.
Best regards
// Ola
On 6 January 2017 at 09:33, Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> 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 libxml2:
>> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9318
>> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9597
>> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9598
>>
>> 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 libxml2 updates
>> for the LTS releases.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not quite interested in backporting the fixes to LTS branch at
> this moment, but CC'ing the XML/SGML group to see if there's anyone
> else interested...
>
> Regards,
> Aron
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