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My Debian Activities in April 2026

Debian LTS/ELTS

This was my hundred-forty-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [DLA 4530-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update to fix two CVEs related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened.
  • [DLA 4544-1] ntfs-3g to fix one CVE related to local root privilege escalation.
  • [DLA 4545-1] packagekit security update to fix one CVE related to local privilege escalation.
  • [DLA 4547-1] gimp security update to fix three CVEs related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code if a malformed PSP, JPEG 2000 or PSD file is opened.
  • [ELA-1682-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update to fix two CVEs in Buster and Stretch related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code.
  • [ELA-1689-1] ntfs-3g security update to fix one CVE in Buster and Stretch related to local root privilege escalation..
  • [ELA-1693-1] pakagekit security update to fix one CVE in Buster and Stretch related to local privilege escalation.
  • [#1126167] bookworm-pu upload of zvbi
  • [#1126273] bookworm-pu upload of taglib
  • [#1126370] bookworm-pu upload of libuev
  • [libcoap3] upload to sid to fix two CVEs related to out-of-bounds read and stacked based buffer overflow.
  • [#1134340] trixie-pu bug for libcoap3 to fix two CVEs in Trixie.
  • [cups] upload to sid to fix six CVEs.

I also did a week of front desk duties and started to work on backports of the cups CVEs.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded a new upstream versions:

Unfortunately the first upload of cups introduces a regression and another upload was needed to take care of a crash. The patch for one CVE also broke a test script, which is used by lots of printing packages in Debian. As a result some autopkgtest runs failed. This could be fixed as well and the only remaining issue that needs some more investigation is related to cups-pdf.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Lomiri

This month I continued to work on unifying packaging on Debian and Ubuntu. This makes it easier to work on those packages independent of the used platform.

I also started working on two new packages: lomiri-radio-app and lomiri-fretboardtrainer-app

This work is generously funded by Fre(i)e Software GmbH!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

Marcos Talau joined the Debian IoT group, welcome aboard.

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

misc

This month I uploaded a new upstream version or a bugfix version of:

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