Re: Wheezy update of libphp-adodb?
Hi Bálint
Actually, I was talking about CVE-2016-4855 and I totally overlooked
TEMP-0000000-B85664.
Debian is not vulnerable to CVE-2016-4855. That was what my previous mail was
about.
However TEMP-0000000-B85664 has a real issue that should be fixed.
Sorry for the mess. I just commited secure-testing/data/CVE/list moving the
"unimportant" and the note about the file being an example from CVE-2016-XXXX
to CVE-2016-4855.
On Friday 09 September 2016 21:49:49 Bálint Réczey wrote:
> Hi Jean-Michel,
>
> Thank you for your prompt response.
>
> 2016-09-09 20:25 GMT+02:00 Jean-Michel Vourgère (debian)
<nirgal@debian.org>:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Debian, the affected php script is deployed as
> > /usr/share/doc/libphp-adodb/examples/test.php.gz
> > and NOT in a browser reachable location:
> >
> > It's not in /usr/share/php/adodb/ with the rest of the library and
> > /usr/share/doc/ is no longer reachable since a long while, if I remember
> > correctly.
> >
> > Upstream wrote:
> >> As a workaround until hotfix is released, we recommend all users to
> >> remove
> >> the whole ./tests directory; it is only used for development purposes and
> >> is not necessary for normal ADOdb operations.
> >
> > So I don't think Debian even qualify as "vulnerable".
>
> Agreed, the installed package is not vulnerable as installed.
>
> > Sure, if you unzip the example test file and create a reachable script
> > based on that, you will have a problem. Note that fixing the example on
> > which you created your affected script will not immediately save you...
> >
> > I plan to work on packaging 5.20.6 (for sid) tomorrow I guess.
>
> Thank you for taking care of that.
>
> > Do you still think the update would be nice to have in wheezy-security?
>
> I don't consider this a high priority issue either, but the package can be
> updated with the proper example and a DLA can be issued to raise
> attention of system administrators.
>
> Cheers,
> Balint
>
> > On Friday 09 September 2016 01:17:03 Balint Reczey wrote:
> >> Hello dear maintainer(s),
> >>
> >> the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are
> >> currently open in the Wheezy version of libphp-adodb:
> >> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4855
> >> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0000000-B85664
> >>
> >> Would you like to take care of this yourself?
> >>
> >> If yes, please follow the workflow we have defined here:
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
> >>
> >> If that workflow is a burden to you, feel free to just prepare an
> >> updated source package and send it to debian-lts@lists.debian.org
> >> (via a debdiff, or with an URL pointing to the source package,
> >> or even with a pointer to your packaging repository), and the members
> >> of the LTS team will take care of the rest. Indicate clearly whether you
> >> have tested the updated package or not.
> >>
> >> If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we
> >> will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would
> >> like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released.
> >>
> >> You can also opt-out from receiving future similar emails in your
> >> answer and then the LTS Team will take care of libphp-adodb updates
> >> for the LTS releases. (In case we don't get any answer for months,
> >> we may also take it as an opt-out, too.)
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> Balint Reczey,
> >>
> >> on behalf of the Debian LTS team.
> >>
> >> PS: A member of the LTS team might start working on this update at
> >> any point in time. You can verify whether someone is registered
> >> on this update in this file:
> >> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/dla-needed.txt?view
> >> =ma rkup
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