Debian LTS and ELTS report - August 2025
Hi,
I've worked during August 2025 on the below listed packages, for
Freexian LTS/ELTS [1].
Many thanks to Freexian and sponsors [2] for providing this opportunity!
LTS
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- Worked on openvpn to apply a regression fix for CVE-2024-5594.
- Published DLA-4079-2 for openvpn/bullseye to fix CVE-2025-5594
regression.
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00000.html)
ELTS
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- Worked on openvpn to backport the fixes for CVE-2022-0547 and
CVE-2024-5594 in buster (ongoing work).
- Stopped when the regression was found and proceeded to fix it on
bullseye and bookworm before resuming on buster and stretch.
Tooling, Documentation and Misc
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- Worked on openvpn to apply a regression fix for CVE-2024-5594 in
bookworm.
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/openvpn/-/merge_requests/16)
- Filled bookworm-pu to get the fix in bookworm in 12.13.
(https://bugs.debian.org/1112645)
- Attended LTS meeting.
- Worked on setting up KGB notifications on irc of MRs against
lts-team.pages.debian.net.
(https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues/91)
Best regards,
Charles
[1] https://www.freexian.com/lts/
[2] https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/#sponsors
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