Bug#834326: jessie-pu: package gnupg/1.4.18-7+deb8u2
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On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 20:58 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> (2016-09-02):
> > On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 07:25 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Control: retitle -1 jessie-pu: package gnupg/1.4.18-7+deb8u3
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 03:58:28PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > > I would like to propose the following hardening to src:gnupg which was
> > > > found during the analysis of a vulnerability report to the security team
> > > > and related to
> > > > https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity16/sec16_paper_razavi.pdf
> > > > and developed by NIIBE Yutaka. The underlying problem in hardware cannot
> > > > be solved in software (and thus we don't want to issue a DSA for it, and
> > > > give possibly this false impression), and as pointed out by Florian
> > > > there are some other open questions regarding the paper and the attacks
> > > > described there.
> > [...]
> > > This all stil holds, but I have rebased the patch on top of the update
> > > via jessie-security.
> >
> > Overall I think I'm happy to trust the maintainers on this, but would
> > like a KiBi-ack due to d-i making use of at least gpgv.
>
> Yeah, looks sane enough; I'd be slightly happier if it could reach p-u
> sooner rather than later (ideally before the 8th), just to make sure
> nothing explodes within d-i.
Thanks. Salvatore, please feel free to upload.
Regards,
Adam
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