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Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 99-1 https://www.debian.org/
debian-release@lists.debian.org Adam D. Barratt
May 30th, 2016
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Upcoming Debian 8 Update (8.5)
An update to Debian 8 is scheduled for Saturday, June 4th, 2016. As of
now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in
"jessie-proposed-updates", which is carried by all official mirrors.
Please note that packages published through security.debian.org are not
listed, but will be included if possible. Some of the updates below are
also already available through "jessie-updates".
Testing and feedback would be appreciated. Bugs should be filed in the
Debian Bug Tracking System, but please make the Release Team aware of
them by copying debian-release@lists.debian.org on your mails.
The point release will also include a rebuild of debian-installer.
Miscellaneous Bugfixes
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This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following
packages:
Package Reason
autofs Remove stray debugging output in log files
bareos Fix GnuTLS backend initialization, TLS negotiation for passive
filedaemons
base-files Update for the point release
chrony Fix CVE-2016-1567: Restrict authentication of server/peer to
specified key; remove /var/lib/chrony on purge only; rework
postrotate log rotation script
clamav New upstream release
cyrus-imapd-2.4 Drop broken caldav support
debian-edu Add libdns-mdns to tasks/desktop-other and tasks/main-server to
make CUPS browsing really functional; add avahi-discover,
mdns-scan, avahi-autoipd and kdnssd to tasks/main-server as
suggested packages
debian-edu-config Backport various bug fixes
debian-edu-doc Update wheezy and jessie documentation
debian-edu-install Update version number to 8+edu0
dpkg Add more Conflicts for removed packages expecting dpkg to ship
install-info; remove trailing space before handling blank line
dot-separator in Dpkg::Control::HashCore. Regression introduced in
dpkg 1.17.25; only use the SHELL environment variable for
interactive shells; move tar option --no-recursion before -T in
dpkg-deb; initialize Config-Version also for packages previously
in triggers-pending state; fix memory leak in dpkg infodb format
upgrade logic; fix physical file offset comparison in dpkg; add
kfreebsd-armhf support to ostable and triplettable; add NIOS2
support to cputable
evince Fix crashes when document has pages removed and is reloaded, and
when a recent document fails to load
ext4magic Fix an issue which makes impossible to recover or examine Ext4 filesystems
fusionforge Disable mediawiki plugin, as mediawiki is being removed
gitolite3 Enable repository paths without '~/' in git-annex-shell
glusterfs Add missing glusterd hook script to glusterfs-server package
gosa Several bugfixes
gpa Fix check of dialog return values
groovy Fix remote execution of untrusted code and possible DoS
vulnerability [CVE-2015-3253]
hexchat Verify hostnames when SSL is in use
hivex Fix ruby-hivex installation
icedove Fix build failure on mips, armel and armhf
icedtea-web New upstream release, fixes security issues [CVE-2015-5235 CVE-2015-5234]
initramfs-tools Include drivers/nvme in block driver modules; create ORDER files
even if there are no valid scripts
libcrypto++ Fix Rijndael timing attack counter measure [CVE-2016-3995]
libdatetime-timezone-perl Update to tzdata 2016d
libksba Do not abort on decoder stack overflow [CVE-2016-4353]; fix
integer overflow in the BER decoder [CVE-2016-4354 CVE-2016-4355],
encoding of invalid UTF-8 strings in dn.c [CVE-2016-4356], OOB
read access in _ksba_dn_to_str, possible read access beyond the
buffer [CVE-2016-4579]
libreoffice Fix build failure on ppc64el due to changes in OpenJDK; fix logic
to not install sound files
linux Revert some changes in 3.16.7-ckt25-1 which caused issues on some
systems with Radeon graphics cards and when inserting a USB device
lvm2 Set default pid directory to /run
mathematica-fonts Update for new upstream file version (10); only TrueType fonts are
now available; add missing dependency on wget
nam Build-Depend on tcl / tk >= 8.6
ngspice Run lyx with a temporary -userdir so as to not rely on $HOME
nlpsolver Add missing Depends: on libreoffice-java-common
nmap Deal with unuseable socks proxy; ignore unenumerable interfaces;
move ndiff.py from zenmap to ndiff
opam Fix insecure certificate handling
openjdk-7 Fix build failure on armel and armhf
openssl Update expired certificates used by test suite; update to 1.0.1t
stable release; use alternate trust chains; use correct digest
when exporting keying material; security fixes [CVE-2015-3197
CVE-2015-1793]
pepperflashplugin-nonfree Update Google public key; remove 32 bit support
perl Apply selected bug-fix patches taken from 5.20.3; fix debugperl
crashes with XS modules; fix regexp engine hang on illegal UTF8
input [CVE-2015-8853]; fix UTF8-related regexp engine crash
policykit-1 Several bug-fixes; fix heap corruption [CVE-2015-3255], local
authenticated denial of service [CVE-2015-4625] and issue with
invalid object paths in RegisterAuthenticationAgent
[CVE-2015-3218]
postgresql-9.1 New upstream release
postgresql-9.4 New upstream release
quota Change invocation of quota services, so systemd takes over most of
the work
redmine Load all database drivers for all Redmine instances
tklib Fixed typo in Plotchart version which prevented its loading
tzdata New upstream release
wmforecast Update for new Yahoo! weather API
xapian-core Fix possible database corruption, especially with recoll
xarchiver Fix crash when attempting to cancel "extract here" in Thunar plugin
xscreensaver Remove warning about "outdated" version
zendframework Fix regression from ZF2015-08: binary data corruption; fix
ZF2016-01: Potential Insufficient Entropy Vulnerability in ZF1
A complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with
rationale is on the preparation page for this revision:
<https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html>
Removed packages
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The following packages will be removed due to circumstances beyond our
control:
Package Reason
lyz Depends on to-be-removed zotero-standalone-build
mediawiki No longer security supported
mediawiki-math Depends on to-be-removed mediawiki
zotero-standalone-build Unusable in jessie
If you encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with
the Debian Release Team at debian-release@lists.debian.org
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