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Re: changlog for bzip2



On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:14:19PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:31:05PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>>
>>This was the changelog.Debian.gz entry for the last bzip2 update:
>>
>>bzip2 (1.0.2-1.woody2) stable-security; urgency=high
>>
>>  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
>>  * No changes rebuild because maintainer prevented distribution of
>>    security fix, thanks a lot!
>>
>>The only useful information I see threre is "urgency=high" -- but no
>>clear explinaton.  Was this just an incomplete log? The maintainer did
>>not respond to my inquiry. Is there a CAN?  Is there a better file to
>>extract specific info from?
>>
>>I can read;  but the second point is ambigous, the first point doesn't
>>help, nor does the urgency level.  So what exactly happened?
>
>I uploaded bzip2 1.0.2-1.1 to stable which clashed with Martin
>Schulze's plan.
>
>1.0.2-1.woody2 is the same as 1.0.2-1.1.
>
> bzip2 (1.0.2-1.1) stable; urgency=medium
> .
>   * Fixed RC bug "file permissions modification race (CAN-2005-0953)", closes:
>     #303300. Patch by Santiago Ruano Rincon <santiago@unicauca.edu.co>.
>     Original patch available at
>     http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111352423504277&w=2
>
>I submitted 1.0.2-1.woody3 and Martin included in the last release
>of woody.

Aparently, he didn't include it in the last release of woody.

> bzip2 (1.0.2-1.woody3) stable-security; urgency=high
> .
>   * Fixed "CAN-2005-1260 decompression bomb vulnerability", closes: #310803.
>     Patch by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>.

Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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