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Re: [SRM] stable/oldstable uploads for vftool CVE-2011-0433



On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:40:44PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Stable is easy: the same version is present, so the patch is just the same
> > as for unstable.
> 
> Thanks for this.  I assume the stable upload would be 2.0alpha-4
> +squeeze1 or similar?  (Or 2.0alpha-4.1~squeeze1 would work, I suppose).
> 
> > In oldstable, you have a choice of whether to include the changes in -4 or
> > not. They fix a FTBFS (which I could not reproduce in a lenny chroot) but
> > are not strictly necessary to fix the CVE. I will prepare uploads
> > according to your preference.
> 
> The FTBFS would only occur if the lenny version were built with
> _GNU_SOURCE defined (which it obviously wasn't, given that it built to
> start with); only later versions of (e)glibc unconditionally define
> getline().  On that basis, please only include the security-related
> changes for oldstable.

Thanks; uploaded as 2.0alpha-4+squeeze1 and 2.0alpha-3+lenny1.


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