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Re: libxfont1 issues should not show up in the latently vulnerable packages list



Hi Michael,
where did the reply come from? It never ended up on this 
list :/
* Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> [2008-07-06 11:23]:
> >> it appears that the recent libxfont1 issues (CVE-2007-5760,
> >> CVE-2007-5958, CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428, and CVE-2007-6429) never
> >> affected sid (they were applicable only to sarge and etch [1]).
> >
> > They were applicable to sid too, but have nothing to do with libXfont,
> > they are bugs in the X server.  CVE-2008-0006 was fixed at the same
> > time, and actually affected libXfont.
> 
> if that is the case, then shouldn't these libxfont1 issues be removed
> from the "Latently vulnerable packages in unstable" list [1]?
> 
> looking at the individual CVEs (CVE-2007-5760, CVE-2007-5958,
> CVE-2007-6427, CVE-2007-6428, and CVE-2007-6429), they all say that
> unstable is "not vulnerable".
> 
> [1] http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/data/latently-vulnerable

Looking at the underlying tracker data the problem seems to 
be that DSA-1466-2 included an upload for libxfont for the 
above CVE ids while only CVE-2008-0006 was fixed in the 
update of libxfont. Also only CVE-2008-0006 applies to the 
package in testing/unstable.

I am not quite sure how to fix this, if it would be an 
option to only list packages as latently vulnerable in 
unstable if they have an <unfixed> tag in the tracker data 
or if it is possible to split libxfont from the other CVE 
ids in the DSA entry or maybe there is an even more simple 
solution.

Anyone knows more?

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