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Re: Debian LTS Security update of ruby-mail (advice needed)



Hi Ola,

I had a look in this package a couple of weeks ago and I found the same problem. I discussed it with Antonio and I think that we can skip this package instead of add a new dependency in wheezy. We guess that implement a cookie_jar "by hand" is not a good idea :)

Cheers,


Em sex, 20 de mai de 2016 08:02, Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> escreveu:
Hi ruby-rest-client maintainer(s) and Debian LTS team

This is my second contribution to Debian LTS and this time I need some advice. This fix require a dependency on ruby-http-cookie which is not in wheezy.

I have prepared an update of the ruby-rest-client package to correct the problem described in
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1820
(I have not fixed CVE-2015-3448 as it was marked as "no DSA" in the security tracker).

The change was simple as the fix was in jessie 1.6.7-6 with a prepared patch. So I have simply copied the patch file and series file to the debian/patch directory, changed the changelog and control file and rebuilt.

The prepared package is here:
http://apt.inguza.net/wheezy-security/ruby-rest-client
The debdiff is here:
http://apt.inguza.net/wheezy-security/ruby-rest-client/debdiff-against-previous-version-in-wheezy.patch

I see two options:
1) I upload this fix above and we introduce the ruby-http-cookie (its dependencies are already there, I have tested with the jessie version of ruby-http-cookie on wheezy, so it is just to add this package too)
2) We tell that the fix is not important enough.
I do not see the point in trying to change the correction in some other way for wheezy.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

// Ola

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