Release-critical Bugreport for February 4, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Feb 4 00:02 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 18
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Package: apache (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files
Package: defrag (main)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
32731 defrag: e2dump quits with check_block_location:6678674146834
Package: dpkg (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any
28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
30090 weirdass dpkg coredumps and xbase upgrade insanity
32635 URGENT: dpkg Conflicts & Replaces errors
Package: general (pseudo)
Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs
[STRATEGY] All setuid applications using the non-libc6 gettext should be
recompiled with gettext 0.10.35-6.1.
Package: perl-suid (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
31904 [B.A.McCauley@BHAM.AC.UK: Secuity hole with perl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux]
Package: proftpd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
32686 proftpd: [security] is proftpd affected by the recent discovered path overflow bug ?
Package: r-base (main)
Maintainer: Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>
31945 R can't load shared libraries
Package: smb2www (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
32131 smb2www: smb2www in slink incompatible with samba in slink
Package: transfig (main)
Maintainer: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
32520 transfig: puts files in /usr/lib/X11, should use /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 instead
[OOPS] The supposedly-fixed version (1:3.2.1-7) is still wrong :(
32843 transfig: claims DSC-2.1, but isn't
Package: vat (main)
Maintainer: Alex Romosan <romosan@caliban.lbl.gov>
28007 vat: vat has non-free code
Package: wdm (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
32529 Typo in Xsession
Package: xfree86-common (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
32713 error in /etc/X11/Xsession
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