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Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 86-1 https://www.debian.org/
debian-release@lists.debian.org Adam D. Barratt
August 31st, 2015
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Upcoming Debian 8 Update (8.2)
An update to Debian 8 is scheduled for Saturday, September 5th, 2015. As
of now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in
"jessie-proposed-updates", which is carried by all official mirrors.
Please note that packages published through security.debian.org are not
listed, but will be included if possible. Some of the updates below are
also already available through "jessie-updates".
Testing and feedback would be appreciated. Bugs should be filed in the
Debian Bug Tracking System, but please make the Release Team aware of
them by copying "debian-release@lists.debian.org" on your mails.
The point release will also include a rebuild of debian-installer.
Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
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This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following
packages:
Package Reason
akonadi Fix a bug that caused old files to be kept when they should be removed
apache2 Fix conffile logic for wheezy to jessie upgrades; fix -D[efined] or <Define>[d] variables lifetime accross restarts; mpm_event: Fix process deadlock when shutting down a worker; mpm_event: Fix crashes due to various race conditions
apt Parse specific-arch dependencies correctly on single-arch systems; remove "first package seen is native package" assumption; fix endless loop in apt-get update that can cause disk fillup
bareos Fix backup corruption on multi-volume jobs; add autopkgtests
base-files Update for the point release
binutils-mingw-w64 Apply upstream fix to handle Visual Studio DLLs
bird Correctly migrate bird6.conf from bird6 package
cron cron.service: Use KillMode=process to kill only the daemon, not running jobs
cross-gcc Require bash in rules.template makefile
dbus Fix a memory leak when GetConnectionCredentials is called; stop dbus-monitor replying to org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer messages, including those that another process should have replied to
debian-installer-launcher Set the menu icon text in the source package to read "Install Debian jessie"
designate Fix mDNS DoS through incorrect handling of large RecordSets [CVE-2015-5695]
dovecot Fix SSL/TLS handshake failures leading to a crash of the login process with newer versions of OpenSSL [CVE-2015-3420]; fix mbox corruption issue
ejabberd Fix logging of nicknames in muc logs and parsing of "ldap_dn_filter" option; postinst: restart on upgrade; logrotate: don't signal a non-running daemon
flash-kernel Combine i.MX53 QSB and LOCO board entries, they are the same thing and the LOCO variant was missing DTB information, possibly causing issues during wheezy to jessie upgrades
fusiondirectory Access javascript libraries via a path relative to FusionDirectory's base path
glibc Fix pthread_mutex_trylock with lock elision; fix gprof entry point on ppc64el; fix a buffer overflow in getanswer_r [CVE-2015-1781]
glusterfs Stop creating UNIX domain sockets as FIFOs on NFS
gnome-terminal Open new tabs in working directory, rather than home directory
gnutls28 Fix a crash in VIA PadLock asm; fix GNUTLS-SA-2015-2, which allowed MD5 signatures (which are disabled by default) in the ServerKeyExchange message
gosa Fix idGenerator for patterns like {%sn[3-6}-{%givenName[3-6]}; enable CSV / LDIF import on (non-Debian-Edu) clean installations by default
groovy2 Fix remote execution of untrusted code and possible DoS vulnerability [CVE-2015-3253]
grub-installer Correctly propagate grub-installer/force-efi-extra-removable to installed system
gtk+3.0 Fix several crashes
haproxy Fix a segfault when parsing a configuration file containing disabled proxy sections
how-can-i-help Use HTTPS to connect to UDD
kic configure: Do not add -L without argument to $LIBS
lame Enable functions with SSE instructions to maintain their own properly aligned stack. Fixes crashes when called from the ocaml bindings
libdatetime-timezone-perl New upstream release
libgee-0.8 Fix default value of --enable-consistency-check, otherwise a very expensive debug option is turned on by default and would make a lot of applications unusably slow
libio-socket-ssl-perl Make PublicSuffix::_default_data thread safe
libisocodes Fix GLib critical warning if the environment variable LANGUAGE is not set
libvirt Teach virt-aa-helper to use TEMPLATE.qemu if the domain is kvm or kqemu; fix crash on live migration; allow access to libnl-3 configuration; report original error when QMP probing fails with new QEMU
linux-ftpd-ssl Fix "NLST of empty directory results in segfault"
lynx-cur Use gnutls_set_default_priority() instead of a custom priority string, so fixing GNUTLS-SA-2015-2 in GnuTLS does not break SSL support in lynx
mesa Disable asynchronous DMA on radeonsi which can cause lockups
motif Disable fix for upstream bug #1565 which caused segfaults in ddd and xpdf
mozilla-gnome-keyring Restore compatibility with newer Iceweasel versions
nbd Fix authfile parsing
nss Fix certificate chain generation to prefer stronger/newer certificates over weaker/older certs
ocl-icd Fix "clSVMFree never called in OpenCL ICD"
pdf.js Drop xul-ext-pdf.js package since it's not compatible with Iceweasel 38
postgresql-9.1 New upstream release
postgresql-9.4 New upstream release
prosody Fix CNAME resolution
python-apt Work around a cyclic reference from Cache to its methods; LFS fixes; fix splitting of multi-lines Binary fields in dsc files; arch-qualify in compare_to_version_in_cache(); fix apt.Package.installed_files for multi-arch packages
python-keystoneclient Fix S3token incorrect condition expression for ssl_insecure [CVE-2015-1852]
python-keystonemiddleware Fix S3Token TLS cert verification option not honored [CVE-2015-1852]
python-reportlab Correctly handle PNGs containing transparency
python-swiftclient Add missing dependency on python-pkg-resources
r-cran-rcurl Build-Depend on libcurl4-openssl-dev, fixing issues with PEM certificate bundles
rawtherapee Fix dcraw imput sanitization errors [CVE-2015-3885]
requestpolicy Restore compatibility with newer Iceweasel versions
rsyslog Disable transactions in ompgsql as they were not working properly
ruby2.1 Fix request hijacking vulnerability in Rubygems [CVE-2015-3900]
syslinux Fix booting on some Chromebooks
systemd Disable default DNS servers in systemd-resolve; use strictly versioned dependendency on libsystemd-dev for the transitional dev packages; udev: Increase udev event timeout to 180s
tabmixplus Restore compatibility with newer Iceweasel versions
tcpdump Fix -Z confirmation log being sent to stdout, where it can get mixed with pcap stream data if '-w -' is used
torrus Revert broken patch refresh, thereby fixing rrdup_notify
tzdata New upstream release
ufraw Fix buffer overflow in ljpeg_start [CVE-2015-3885]
unattended-upgrades Make optional automatic-reboot work again; really fix adding of jessie-security
wesnoth-1.10 Disallow inclusion of .pbl files from WML [CVE-2015-5069, CVE-2015-5070]
xemacs21 Conflict against old transitional packages to make absolutely sure that they are removed before we try to upgrade; remove dependency from support to binary package since the binary package already has the equivalent dependency
xserver-xorg-video-modesetting Don't pretend to support rotation
A complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with
rationale is on the preparation page for this revision:
<https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html>
Removed packages
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The following packages will be removed due to circumstances beyond our
control:
Package Reason
criu Fast-moving target, too difficult to keep updated
dactyl Incompatible with newer Iceweasel versions
fullscreen-extension Incompatible with newer Iceweasel versions
netty3.1 Dependency for non-present jetty
php-zend-xml Security issues; useless in Debian
rubyfilter Broken (empty) package
If you encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with
the Debian Release Team at "debian-release@lists.debian.org".
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