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Re: Packages glassfish-* security concerns



On mar., 2012-07-17 at 14:39 -0700, Benjamin Jaton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The packages glassfish-* shipped in all the version of Debian are
> version 2.1.1.
> The glassfish v2 open souce code hasn't received any updates since
> 2010, not even critical security updates.
> ( https://svn.java.net/svn/glassfish~svn/trunk/v2/ )
> Only the Oracle Enterprise version is still maintained.
> Even if those are not the full server stack
> ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653964 ), they may
> contains severe security flaws.
> We just don't know, right?

Do you have specific pointers about those “severe security flaws” or is
it just random guesses? The security tracker only tracks known security
issues.
> 
> The v3 version is very stable and actively maintained. I would
> consider shipping it instead of v2.

For Wheezy, that won't happen. For next version, you're free to contact
packagers.
> 
Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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