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Re: CVE-2020-8859 for elog, should we support it?



Hi Utkarsh

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 06:05:10AM +0530, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
> Hi Security team,
> 
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 2:05 AM Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> wrote:
> > If you think we should support the package I'll add it to
> > dla-needed. From the description it looks like one can trigger
> > a denial of service without being authenticated. That sounds
> > pretty severe to me.
> 
> I'll just go ahead and reserve an update for stretch then. Do you
> think this is something that'd warrant a DSA, too? If not, I'll just
> open -pu bugs and get 'em dome.

It won't warrant a DSA, but note that elog will be removed on the next
buster and bullseye point releases:

https://bugs.debian.org/1010196
https://bugs.debian.org/1010197

Regards,
Salvatore


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