Bug#521107: s-p-u: security update for xfs package
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 19:10:01 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:16 -0300, Luciano Bello wrote:
> > (CC is appreciated. I'm not following this list)
> >
> > Hey there,
> > I would like to upload a new xfs package to stable in order to fix a the
> > security issue 1447 [1], #521107 [2]. This was checked with the security team
> > and is a non-dsa case.
>
> >From reading the bug log for #521107, it appears that the maintainer
> disagrees either that there is an issue which requires fixing, or with
> the proposed fix (which of those two options is applicable wasn't
> entirely clear to me as there's no reply to his last message in the
> log). Is that the case?
>
This was clarified in a private discussion with Luciano, sorry for not
updating the bug log.
Luciano's last patch seems fine. I still believe this is a pretty minor
issue, and I think it should be fixed in sid before being considered for
stable, but I don't have an objection to this update.
Cheers,
Julien
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