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Re: Critical bug in pdns - security team not responding



On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:28:15AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
> Dear list...
> 
> our package 'pdns' in Sarge has a serious bug which can be abused to run a
> DoS attack against a name server. My co-maintainer already mailed the
> security team but did not get a response yet.
> 
> Currently we are preparing a new package to upload into 'unstable'.
> How else can we get the fixed version into Sarge asap? I have never had
> to deal with bug fixes in stable packages before.

The Security Team FAQ (http://www.debian.org/security/faq) has a question on
just this point (http://www.debian.org/security/faq#care) that will probably
get you most of the way there.  The FAQ, in turn, references DevRef
(http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs#s-bug-security).

Presumably knowledge of the bug is public (or else you wouldn't be posting
info about it to a public ML), so an upload to unstable with a fixed package
would be a good idea ASAP.  Send the minimal patch to the security team, and
test it as thoroughly as possible, and then send *that* info to the security
team as well.

- Matt
(Not a Security Team member)

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