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Bug#866759: stretch-pu: package protozero/1.5.1-1+deb9u1



Control: tag -1 confirmed

Hi,

Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> (2017-07-01):
> protozero 1.5.1 in stretch contains a serious bug that was fixed in
> 1.5.2. The fix has been cherry-picked and I'd like to upload this
> proposed-update.
> 
> >From the changelog and patch description:
> 
> "
>  This fixes a rather embarrassing bug in the equality operator of the
>  data_view class. The equality operator is actually never used in the
>  protozero code itself, but users of protozero might use it. This is a
>  serious bug that could lead to buffer overrun type problems.
> "
> 
> The issue was pointed out by the upstream author in:
> 
>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2017/07/msg00000.html

Ah right, \0 characters are fun…

This looks good to me, but we'll need to wait until 1.5.2-1 has reached
testing before accepting this from stretch-new; either upload now, and
ping when it's migrated; or upload when it's migrated, and ping us right
afterwards.

Thanks.


KiBi.

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