Updated Debian 8: 8.5 released
June 4th, 2016
The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its
stable distribution Debian 8 (codename jessie
).
This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable
release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories
were already published separately and are referenced where available.
Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian
8 but only updates some of the packages included. There is
no need to throw away old jessie
CDs or DVDs but only to update
via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of
date packages to be updated.
Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.
New installation media and CD and DVD images containing updated packages will be available soon at the regular locations.
Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:
Miscellaneous Bugfixes
This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following packages:
Package | Reason |
---|---|
autofs | Remove stray debugging output in log files |
bareos | Fix GnuTLS backend initialization, TLS negotiation for passive filedaemons |
base-files | Update for the point release |
chrony | Fix CVE-2016-1567: Restrict authentication of server/peer to specified key; remove /var/lib/chrony on purge only; rework postrotate log rotation script |
clamav | New upstream release |
cyrus-imapd-2.4 | Drop broken caldav support |
debian-edu | Add libdns-mdns to tasks/desktop-other and tasks/main-server to make CUPS browsing really functional; add avahi-discover, mdns-scan, avahi-autoipd and kdnssd to tasks/main-server as suggested packages |
debian-edu-config | Backport various bug fixes |
debian-edu-doc | Update wheezy and jessie documentation |
debian-edu-install | Update version number to 8+edu0 |
debian-installer | Rebuild against proposed-updates; add sata-modules for arm64 - some machines do have SATA CD |
debian-installer-netboot-images | Rebuild against new debian-installer; swap the d-i Built-Using with the installer fetching, to fail on version mismatches earlier |
dpkg | Add more Conflicts for removed packages expecting dpkg to ship install-info; remove trailing space before handling blank line dot-separator in Dpkg::Control::HashCore. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.25; only use the SHELL environment variable for interactive shells; move tar option --no-recursion before -T in dpkg-deb; initialize Config-Version also for packages previously in triggers-pending state; fix memory leak in dpkg infodb format upgrade logic; fix physical file offset comparison in dpkg; add kfreebsd-armhf support to ostable and triplettable; add NIOS2 support to cputable |
evince | Fix crashes when document has pages removed and is reloaded, and when a recent document fails to load |
ext4magic | Fix an issue which makes impossible to recover or examine Ext4 filesystems |
fusionforge | Disable mediawiki plugin, as mediawiki is being removed |
gitolite3 | Enable repository paths without '~/' in git-annex-shell |
glusterfs | Add missing glusterd hook script to glusterfs-server package |
gosa | Several bugfixes |
gpa | Fix check of dialog return values |
groovy | Fix remote execution of untrusted code and possible DoS vulnerability [CVE-2015-3253] |
hexchat | Verify hostnames when ssl is in use |
hivex | Fix ruby-hivex installation |
icedove | Fix build failure on mips; fix build on arm{el,hf} |
icedtea-web | New upstream release, fixes CVE-2015-5235 and CVE-2015-5234 |
initramfs-tools | Include drivers/nvme in block driver modules; create ORDER files even if there are no valid scripts |
libcrypto++ | Fix Rijndael timing attack counter measure [CVE-2016-3995] |
libdatetime-timezone-perl | Update to tzdata 2016d |
libksba | Do not abort on decoder stack overflow [CVE-2016-4353]; fix integer overflow in the BER decoder (CVE-2016-4354 CVE-2016-4355), encoding of invalid utf-8 strings in dn.c [CVE-2016-4356], OOB read access in _ksba_dn_to_str, possible read access beyond the buffer [CVE-2016-4579] |
libreoffice | Fix build failure on ppc64el due to changes in OpenJDK; fix logic to not install sound files |
linux | Revert some changes in 3.16.7-ckt25-1 which caused issues on some systems with Radeon graphics cards and when inserting a USB device |
lvm2 | Set default pid directory to /run |
mathematica-fonts | Update for new upstream file version (10); only TrueType fonts are now available; add missing dependency on wget |
nam | Build-Depend on tcl / tk >= 8.6 |
ngspice | Run lyx with a temporary -userdir to not rely on $HOME |
nlpsolver | Add missing Depends: on libreoffice-java-common |
nmap | Fix versioned breaks/replaces; deal with unuseable socks proxy; ignore unenumerable interfaces; move ndiff.py from zenmap to ndiff |
opam | Fix insecure certificate handling |
openjdk-7 | Fix build failure on arm{el,hf} |
openssl | Update expired certificates used by test suite; update to 1.0.1t stable release; use alternate trust chains; use correct digest when exporting keying material; security fixes [CVE-2015-3197 CVE-2015-1793] |
pepperflashplugin-nonfree | Update Google public key; remove 32 bit support |
perl | Apply selected bug-fix patches taken from 5.20.3; fix debugperl crashes with XS modules; CVE-2015-8853 fix regexp engine hang on illegal UTF8 input; fix UTF8-related regexp engine crash |
postgresql-9.1 | New upstream release |
postgresql-9.4 | New upstream release |
quota | Change invocation of quota services, so systemd takes over most of the work |
redmine | Load all database drivers for all Redmine instances |
tklib | Fixed typo in Plotchart version which prevented its loading |
tzdata | New upstream release |
wmforecast | Update for new Yahoo! weather API |
xapian-core | Fix possible database corruption, especially with recoll |
xarchiver | Fix crash when attempting to cancel extract herein Thunar plugin |
xscreensaver | Remove warning about outdatedversion |
zendframework | Fix regression from ZF2015-08: binary data corruption; fix ZF2016-01: Potential Insufficient Entropy Vulnerability in ZF1 |
Security Updates
This revision adds the following security updates to the stable release. The Security Team has already released an advisory for each of these updates:
Removed packages
The following packages were removed due to circumstances beyond our control:
Package | Reason |
---|---|
lyz | Depends on to-be-removed zotero-standalone-build |
mediawiki | No longer security supported |
mediawiki-math | Depends on to-be-removed mediawiki |
zotero-standalone-build | Unusable in jessie |
Debian Installer
The installer has been updated to include the fixes incorporated into stable by the point release.URLs
The complete lists of packages that have changed with this revision:
The current stable distribution:
Proposed updates to the stable distribution:
stable distribution information (release notes, errata etc.):
Security announcements and information:
About Debian
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Contact Information
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at https://www.debian.org/, send mail to <press@debian.org>, or contact the stable release team at <debian-release@lists.debian.org>.