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My Debian Activities in June 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 270 and rejected 23 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 279.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twentieth 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 3826-1] cups security update for one CVE to prevent arbitrary chmod of files
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 to fix one CVE
  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u6 to fix one CVE
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 package upload
  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u6 package upload
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 to fix an upstream regression of the last upload
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u7 to fix an upstream regression of the last upload
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 package upload
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u7 package upload
  • [#1055802] bookworm-pu: package qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u1 package upload

This month handling of the CVE of cups was a bit messy. After lifting the embargo of the CVE, a published patch did not work with all possible combinations of the configuration. In other words, in cases of having only one local domain socket configured, the cupsd did not start and failed with a strange error. Anyway, upstream published a new set of patches, which made cups work again. Unfortunately this happended just before the latest point release for Bullseye and Bookworm, so that the new packages did not make it into the release, but stopped in the corresponding p-u-queues: stable-p-u and old-p-u.

I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-first ELTS month. During my allocated time I tried to upload a new version of cups for Jessie and Stretch. Unfortunately this was stopped due to an autopkgtest error, which I could not reproduce yet.

I also wanted to finally upload a fixed version of exim4. Unfortunately this was stopped due to lots of CI-jobs for Buster. Updates for Buster are now also availble from ELTS, so some stuff had to prepared before the actual switch end of June. Additionally everything was delayed due to a crash of the CI worker. All in all this month was rather ill-fated. At least the exim4 upload will happen/already happened in July.

I also continued to work on an update for libvirt, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

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

All of those uploads are somehow related to /usr-move.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

The following packages have been prepared by the GSoC student Nathan:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Here as well all uploads are somehow related to /usr-move

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My Debian Activities in May 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 347 and rejected 49 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 348.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-nineteenth 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:

  • [#1070154] bullseye-pu: qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1 package upload
  • [#1064550] bullseye-pu: libjwt 1.10.2-1+deb11u1 has been marked for accept
  • [#1067544] bullseye-pu: libmicrohttpd 0.9.72-2+deb11u1 has been marked for accept

I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Unfortunately I used lots of time to debug an issue with nghttp2. Please see my odyssey below.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventieth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1104-1-1]nghttp2 security update for one CVEs to fix an DoS resulting from bad handling of CONTINUATION frames in Stretch

For some tests I installed the new nghttp2 package on my Stretch VM and started the daemon. Unfortunately I got an unexpected error from getaddrinfo() about ai_socktype not supported. The daemon was configured to listen on lo, the device was available, but the error remained. I was pretty sure that my patch was not the reason for this and indeed the unpatched version showed this error as well. I didn’t want to release an untested package, so nghttp2 had to start at least! Therefore I built a minimal example to reproduce the issue. getaddrinfo() failed for hints.ai_socktype=SOCK_STREAM and a numerical IP address. Having no hints at all or “localhost” instead of “127.0.0.1” made the error disappear (as a remark: “localhost” resolves to 127.0.0.1, the ipv6 variant is “ip6-localhost”). I could see that in nghttp2 as well. Configuring it with “localhost” let the error vanish but the daemon still exited due to other reasons. After some time of debugging, I added another network interface to my VM and configured it with a dummy IPv4 address. Voila, everything worked as expected. According to Wikipedia, IPv6 was ratified as standard in 2017 and Stretch was also released in 2017. No wonder that a IPv6-only-VM had problems back then and these problems survived to the present.

I also continued to work on an update for tiff in Jessie and Stretch, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

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

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

Due to more and more problems with time_t, I removed osmo-iuh and all dependencies from armel, armhf and i386, sorry. If there is really anybody using this software on 32-bit architectures don’t hesitate to get in touch.

It is official now, the GSoC student working on the Mobcom packages is Nathan Doris. He already finished the hardest part of the job and I could upload the latest version of libosmocore. I really enjoy working with him and look forward to a pleasant SoC :-).

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Did I already mention that I love lists with topics I can work on. I print out such lists and enjoy checking off one after the other. End of May Helmut told me that I am a bit lazy and gave me such a list with all my packages that have one or the other issue with /usr-move. Most of the uploads above are packages on that list and I could check off a lot :-).

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My Debian Activities in April 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 386 and rejected 39 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 386.

I also added lots of +moreinfo tags to some RM bugs. Is it that hard to check the reverse dependencies on your own?

Debian LTS

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

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3781-1] libgd2 security update for three CVEs to fix out-of-bounds reads or NULL pointer derefence
    • [DLA 3784-1] libcaca security update for two CVEs to fix heap buffer overflows
      • [DLA 3805-1] qtbase-opensource-src security update for seven CVEs to fix buffer overflows, infinite loops or application crashs due to processing of crafted input files. When trying to compile the fixed version, I got an error that there is no .compare() for QByteArray available. Yes, indeed, QByteArray::compare, which was used in a patch, was introduced only in Qt 6.0. So I had to backport that to Buster as well. It is astonishing that such a basic function was not needed before.
      • [#1070153] bookworm-pu: qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2 to fix two CVEs
      • [#1070154] bullseye-pu: qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1 to fix ten CVEs
      • [#1064550] uploaded libjwt
      • [#1067544] uploaded libmicrohttpd

      I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

      Debian ELTS

      This month was the sixty-ninth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

      • [ELA-1069-1]libgd2 security update for three CVEs to fix out-of-bounds reads or NULL pointer derefence in Jessie and Stretch
      • [ELA-1070-1]libcaca security update for two CVEs to fix heap buffer overflows in Jessie and Stretch
      • [ELA-1083-1]qtbase-opensource-src security update for five CVEs to fix buffer overflows, infinite loops or application crashs due to processing of crafted input files in Stretch

      I also continued to work on an update for tiff in Jessie and Stretch, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

      Debian Printing

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      In preparation for cups3 I introduced a new package:

      This work is generously funded by Freexian!

      Debian Astro

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

      Debian IoT

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      Debian Mobcom

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      I have done these uploads in preparation for my GSoC student, who will be officially announced in May.

      misc

      I am sorry for people still using 32bit computers, but from my point of view these are dying architectures. So if there are any problems with builds on those architectures, I no longer try to fix them but file RM bugs. Patches are welcome, but I am no longer willing to spend any time for this.

      This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

      This month I even found some time to introduce new packages:

      • … mailio a cross platform C++ library for email support
      • … pksc11-proxy a proxy for the PKCS11-library
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My Debian Activities in March 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 147 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 151.

If you file an RM bug, please do check whether there are reverse dependencies as well and file RM bugs for them. It is annoying and time-consuming when I have to do the moreinfo dance.

Debian LTS

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

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3770-1] libnet-cidr-lite-perl security update for one CVE to fix IP parsing and ACLs based on the result
  • [#1067544] Bullseye PU bug for libmicrohttpd
  • Unfortunately XZ happened at the end of month and I had to delay/intentionally delayed other uploads: they will appear as DLA-3781-1 and DLA-3784-1 in April

I also continued to work on qtbase-opensource-src and last but not least did a week of FD.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-eighth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1062-1]libnet-cidr-lite-perl security update for one CVE to improve parsing of IP addresses in Jessie and Stretch
  • Due to XZ I also delayed the uploads here. They will appear as ELA-1069-1 and DLA-1070-1 in April

I also continued on an update for qtbase-opensource-src in Stretch (and LTS and other releases as well) and did a week of FD.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

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

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

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

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

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My Debian Activities in November 2023

FTP master

This month I accepted 276 and rejected 25 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 276. I also handled several RM bugs, so the archive did not grow that much :-).

Debian LTS

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

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3670-1] minizip security update for one CVE to fix an integer overflow
  • [DLA 3673-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update for one CVEs to fix an use-after-free
  • [#1056934] Bookworm PU-bug for libde265
  • [#1056935] Bullseye PU-bug for libde265
  • [#1056737] Bookworm PU-bug for minizip
  • [#1056738] Bullseye PU-bug for minizip
  • [libde265] sponsor upload to unstable
  • [zlib] all CVEs could be marked as not-affected

The update of libde265 was a bit unusual this time. The security tracker had three CVEs listed for it and the maintainer was looking for a sponsor to fix them in Unstable. So far, so good! I sponsored the upload and suddenly a fourth CVE appeared in the security tracker. As the debian/changelog mentioned a different CVE, it was automatically added. Indeed upstreams changelog contained a patch for a CVE that was reserved but not yet published (hence the security tracker could not connect it to libde265). I informed upstream and as things turned out marking the CVE as public was just forgotten. Luckily there was some time left for the upcoming point release and all four patches finally arrived in Bookworm.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-fourth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1004-1] libde265 update in Jessie and Stretch for three CVEs. The issues are related to segmentation faults and bufferf overflows in different functions, which might result in DoS.
  • [ELA-1006-1] libde265 update in Jessie and Stretch for one CVE. This issue is related to an buffer over read which might result in an information leak or denial of service when processing crafted H.265 files
  • [ELA-1010-1 ]minizip update in Stretch for one CVE. This issue was related to a heap-based buffer overflow.
  • [ELA-1015-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 update in Jessie and Stretch for one CVEs to fix a use-after-free of some pointers within the MXF demuxer.

In order to check whether the patch for the standalone version of minizip was ok, I used a test from the embedded minizip version in chromium and it worked.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Within the context of preserving old printing packages, I adopted:

If you know of any other package that is also needed and still maintained by the QA team, please tell me.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded a package to fix one or the other issue:

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream version of packages, did a source upload for the transition or uploaded it to fix one or the other issue: