Bug#818549: jessie-pu: package icedtea-web/1.5.3-1

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:06:05PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> Tags: jessie
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: pu
> 
> Hi,
> I'd like to update icedtea-web in jessie to 1.5.3 in the next
> jessie point release. This fixes two security issues (CVE-2015-5234,
> CVE-2015-5235), which are not easily backportable, so I rather made
> the update to the minor point update which fixes those (similar
> to what we do with openjdk-7 itself).
> 
> I've tested this on a jessie with various web applets I could
> find (fortunately finding these in the wild is becoming increasingly
> difficult!).
> 
> The debdiff is here: https://people.debian.org/~jmm/icedtea-web.debdiff
> (the actual change to the debian/ directory is just the changelog
> entry bump). Ubuntu has also updated to those point bugfix updates
> in USNs for a while now.

ping for the upcoming point update.

Cheers,
        Moritz