My Free Software Activities in January 2020

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in February) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • Again Reiner Herrman did a very good job with updating some of the most famous FOSS games in Debian. I reviewed and sponsored supertux 0.6.1.1, supertuxkart 1.1 and love 11.3, also several updates to fix build failures with the latest version of scons in Debian. Reiner Herrmann, Moritz Mühlenhoff and Phil Wyett contributed patches to fix release critical bugs in netpanzer, boswars, btanks, and xboxdrv.
  • I packaged new upstream versions of minetest 5.1.1, empire 1.15 and bullet 2.89.
  • I backported freeciv 2.6.1 to buster-backports and
  • applied a patch by Asher Gordon to fix a teleporter bug in berusky2. He also submitted another patch to address even more bugs and I hope to review and upload a new revision soon.

Debian Java

Misc

  • As the maintainer I requested the removal of pyblosxom, a web blog engine written in Python 2. Unfortunately pyblosxom is no longer actively maintained and the port to Python 3 has never been finished. I thought it would be better to remove the package now since we have a couple of good alternatives like Hugo or Jekyll.
  • I packaged new upstream versions of wabt and privacybadger.

Debian LTS

This was my 47. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 15 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • DLA-2065-1. Issued a security update for apache-log4j1.2 fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-2077-1. Issued a security update for tomcat7 fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-2078-1. Issued a security update for libxmlrpc3-java fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-2097-1. Issued a security update for ppp fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-2098-1. Issued a security update for ipmitool fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-2099-1. Issued a security update for checkstyle fixing 1 CVE.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my twentieth month and I have been paid to work 10 hours on ELTS.

  • ELA-208-1. Issued a security update for tomcat7 fixing 2 CVE.
  • ELA-209-1. Issued a security update for linux fixing 41 CVE.
  • Investigated CVE-2019-17023 in nss which is needed to build and run OpenJDK 7. I found that the vulnerability did not affect this version of nss because of the incomplete and experimental support for TLS 1.3.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in December 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • I started the month by backporting the latest version of minetest to buster-backports.
  • New versions of Springlobby, the single and multiplayer lobby for the Spring RTS engine, and Freeciv (now at 2.6.1) were packaged.
  • I had to remove python-pygccxml as a build-dependency from spring because of the Python 2 removal and there was also another unrelated build failure that got fixed as well.
  • I also released a new version of the debian-games metapackages. A considerable number of games were removed from Debian in the past months, in parts due to the ongoing Python 2 removal but also because of inactive maintainers or upstreams. There were also some new games though. Check out the 3.1 changelog for more information. As a consequence of our Python 2 goal, the development metapackage for Python 2 is gone now.

Debian Java

Misc

  • The imlib2 image library was updated to version 1.6.1 and now supports the webp image format.
  • I backported the Thunderbird addon dispmua to Buster and Stretch because the new Thunderbird ESR version had made it unusable.
  • I also updated binaryen, a compiler and library for WebAssembly and asked upstream if they could relax the build-dependency on Git which they did.

Debian LTS

This was my 46. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 16,5 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

From 23.12.2019 until 05.01.2020 I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I investigated and triaged CVE in sudo, shiro, waitress, sa-exim, imagemagick, nss, apache-log4j1.2, sqlite3, lemonldap-ng, libsixel, graphicsmagick, debian-lan-config, xerces-c, libpodofo, vim, pure-ftpd, gthumb, opencv, jackson-databind, pillow, fontforge, collabtive, libhibernate-validator-java, lucene-solr and gpac.

  • DLA-2051-1. Issued a security update for intel-microcode fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-2058-1. Issued a security update for nss fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-2062-1. Issued a security update for sa-exim fixing 1 CVE.
  • I prepared a security update for tomcat7 by updating to the latest upstream release in the 7.x series. It is pending review by Mike Gabriel at the moment.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my nineteenth month and I have been assigned to work 15 hours on ELTS.

  • I was in charge of our ELTS frontdesk from 23.12.2019 until 05.01.2020 and I triaged CVE in sqlite3, libxml2 and nss.
  • ELA-200-2. Issued a security update for intel-microcode.
  • Worked on tomcat7, CVE-2019-12418 and CVE-2019-17563, and finished the patches prepared by Mike Gabriel. We have discovered some unrelated test failures and are currently investigating the root cause of them.
  • Worked on nss, which is required to build OpenJDK 7 and also needed at runtime for the SunEC security provider. I am currently investigating CVE-2019-17023 which has been assigned only a few days ago.
  • ELA-206-1. Issued a security update for apache-log4j1.2 fixing 1 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in November 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • Simon Schmeisser prepared a new upstream version of Ogre 1.12, a 3D object-oriented graphics rendering engine. I reviewed his work and gave some advice but he hasn't had the time to work on the package again.
  • Auralquiz failed to build from source related to phonon4qt5. (#943870)
  • I packaged a new upstream Git snapshot of Berusky2, a 3D logic game with bugs (lalala). Asher Gordon and Bernhard Übelacker prepared patches to fix crashes which partially surfaced because of the switch to GCC 9.
  • Drascula, the evil vampire adventure game, didn't want to start anymore and needed an update because of an engine change in ScummVM 2.10.
  • After I had updated armagetronad, the tron-like lightcycle game, a relocation error appeared due to changes in GCC 9 and prevented the game from starting. Thanks to boffi and Bernhard Übelacker we could identify the correct patch to address the problem.
  • After more than six years upstream released a new version of burgerspace again, a neat clone of burgertime, and its corresponding flatzebra library.
  • I packaged Minetest 5.1.0 and intend to backport this version to stable-backports soon.
  • Last but not least I decided to package the latest released version of caveexpress, which has a rather odd version number and contains only minor changes but I had to do it. 🙂

Debian Java

  • This month I packaged new releases of jboss-modules, intellij-annotations, easymock, undertow, activemq and jboss-xnio.
  • In order to let easymock migrate to testing I had to rebuild junit5, apiguardian, opentest4j and univocity-parsers and do source-only uploads. Currently all newly introduced packages to Debian have to be uploaded with all binaries included. Once the package has been approved, it is stuck in unstable and can't migrate to testing and needs another source-only rebuild. I believe we should find a better way to reduce this kind of make-work when there is actually nothing to improve from the initial upload.
  • I have been working on a security update for Tomcat 8 in Stretch and hope to finish it soon.

Misc

  • As usual I updated some Firefox addons and packaged new upstream releases for privacybadger, https-everywhere and dispmua. The latter is actually a Thunderbird addon and displays what kind of email software (MUA) your correspondent uses (which can tell you a lot about someone's personality 😉 ) I intend to prepare a stretch/buster-pu for it too.

Debian LTS

This was my 45. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 24,5 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • DLA-1996-1. Issued a security update for libapache2-mod-auth-openidc fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-2023-1. Issued a security update for openjdk-7 fixing 16 CVE.
  • DLA-2027-1. Issued a security update for jruby fixing 4 CVE.
  • DLA-2028-1. Issued a security update for squid3 fixing 4 CVE.
  • DLA-2030-1. Issued a security update for jackson-databind fixing 2 CVE.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my eightteenth month and I have been assigned to work 15 hours on ELTS.

  • I was in charge of our ELTS frontdesk from 25.11.2019 until 01.12.2019 and I triaged CVE in jetty, gnupg, rabbitmq-server, netkit-telnet and nss.
  • ELA-190-1. Issued a security update for linux fixing 2 CVE.
  • ELA-199-1. Issued a security update for intel-microcode fixing 2 CVE.
  • ELA-200-1. Issued a security update for openjdk-7 fixing 16 CVE. In order to improve the test coverage, I investigated together with Roberto Sanchez how to backport and use autopkgtests for OpenJDK 7. The idea is to catch changes in OpenJDK that are actually a regression in Debian but may not be an actual test failure. The previous release suddenly required to build the SunEC security provider in order to provide the same cryptographic classes to users as before and hopefully an autopkgtest is able to find such a regression earlier. The tests are currently not integrated in the package and only available locally but the intention is to make them available with the next security update.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in October 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • Python 3 ports: I reviewed and sponsored krank and solarwolf for Reiner Herrmann. Thanks to his diligent work two more Python games were ported to Python 3. He also packaged a new upstream release of hyperrogue and improved the build system. Less memory is required to build hyperrogue now and some buildd are thankful for that.
  • The bullet transition got finally approved and completed successfully.
  • I uploaded a new version of pygame-sdl2 to experimental which supports Python 3 now. However the library is still exclusively needed for renpy but upstream hasn't finished the porting work to Python 3 yet. Hopefully this will be done next year. That means the new version of renpy which I also packaged this month still depends on Python 2.
  • I fixed two bugs in Freeciv, the famous strategy game, by replacing fonts-noto-cjk with fonts-unfonts-core. (#934588) The latter fonts looks apparently better on ordinary screens. The second one was simple to fix, I just had to remove an unneeded Python 2 build-dependency. (#936553)
  • The strategy game asc, a neat clone of Battle Isle 2, also needed some attention this month. I had to replace libwxgtk3.0-dev with libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev. (#943439)
  • I did a QA upload of open-invaders because the maintainer email address was bouncing. The game needs a new maintainer.

Debian Java

Misc

  • I packaged a new version of privacybadger, and backported ublock-origin  to Stretch and Buster because the addon was incompatible with the latest Firefox ESR release.

Debian LTS

This was my 44. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 22,75 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • From 14.10.2019 until 20.10.2019 and from 28.10.2019 until 03.11.2019 I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I investigated and triaged CVE in wordpress, ncurses, opencv, pillow, poppler, golang, gdal, lz4, python-reportlab, ruby-haml, vips, rdesktop, modsecurity-crs, zabbix, polarssl and tika.
  • DLA-1960-1. Issued a security update for wordpress fixing 7 CVE.
  • DLA-1966-1. Issued a security update for aspell fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1973-1. Issued a security update for libxslt fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1978-1. Issued a security update for python-ecdsa fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-1982-1. Issued a security update for openafs fixing 2 CVE.
  • I triaged 17 CVE in libgig and forwarded the result upstream. After the investigation I decided to mark these issues as no-dsa because all in all the security risk was low. (#931309)

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my seventeenth month and I have been assigned to work 15 hours on ELTS plus five hours from September. I used 8 of them for the following:

  • ELA-185-1. Issued a security update for libxslt fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-186-1. Issued a security update for libssh2 fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-187-1. Issued a security update for cpio fixing 1 CVE. The update was prepared by Ola Lundqvist.
  • ELA-188-1. Issued a security update for djvulibre fixing 1 CVE.
  • I worked on OpenJDK 7. I contacted upstream and asked for a new IcedTea release on which we rely for packaging new upstream releases of OpenJDK. The release is still delayed.

My Free Software Activities in September 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • Reiner Herrmann investigated a build failure of supertuxkart on several architectures and prepared an update to link against libatomic. I reviewed and sponsored the new revision which allowed supertuxkart 1.0 to migrate to testing.
  • Python 3 ports: Reiner also ported bouncy, a game for small kids, to Python3 which I reviewed and uploaded to unstable.
  • Myself upgraded atomix to version 3.34.0 as requested although it is unlikely that you will find a major difference to the previous version.

Debian Java

Misc

  • I packaged new upstream releases of ublock-origin and privacybadger, two popular Firefox/Chromium addons and
  • packaged a new upstream release of wabt, the WebAssembly Binary Toolkit.

Debian LTS

This was my 43. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 23,75 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • From 11.09.2019 until 15.09.2019 I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I investigated and triaged CVE in libonig, bird, curl, openssl, wpa, httpie, asterisk, wireshark and libsixel.
  • DLA-1922-1. Issued a security update for wpa fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1932-1. Issued a security update for openssl fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-1900-2. Issued a regression update for apache fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1943-1. Issued a security update for jackson-databind fixing 4 CVE.
  • DLA-1954-1. Issued a security update for lucene-solr fixing 1 CVE. I triaged CVE-2019-12401 and marked Jessie as not-affected because we use the system libraries of woodstox in Debian.
  • DLA-1955-1. Issued a security update for tcpdump fixing 24 CVE by backporting the latest upstream release to Jessie. I discovered several test failures but after more investigation I came to the conclusion that the test cases were simply created with a newer version of libpcap which causes the test failures with Jessie's older version.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my sixteenth month and I have been assigned to work 15 hours on ELTS plus five hours from August. I used 15 of them for the following:

  • I was in charge of our ELTS frontdesk from 30.09.2019 until 06.10.2019 and I triaged CVE in tcpdump. There were no reports of other security vulnerabilities for supported packages in this week.
  • ELA-163-1. Issued a security update for curl fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-171-1. Issued a security update for openssl fixing 2 CVE.
  • ELA-172-1. Issued a security update for linux fixing 23 CVE.
  • ELA-174-1. Issued a security update for tcpdump fixing 24 CVE.

My Free Software Activities in August 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

Debian Java

Misc

  • I fixed two minor CVE in binaryen, a compiler and toolchain infrastructure library for WebAssembly, by packaging the latest upstream release.

Debian LTS

This was my 42. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 21,75 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • From 12.8.2019 until 18.08.2019 and from 09.09.2019 until 10.09.2019 I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I investigated and triaged CVE in kde4libs, apache2, nodejs-mysql, pdfresurrect, nginx, mongodb, nova, radare2, flask, bundler, giflib, ansible, zabbix, salt, imapfilter, opensc and sqlite3.
  • DLA-1886-2. Issued a regression update for openjdk-7. The regression was caused by the removal of several classes in rt.jar by upstream. Since Debian never shipped the SunEC security provider SSL connections based on elliptic curve algorithms could not be established anymore. The problem was solved by building sunec.jar and its native library libsunec.so from source. An update of the nss source package was required too which resolved a five year old bug. (#750400).
  • DLA-1900-1. Issued a security update for apache2 fixing 2 CVE, three more CVE did not affect the version in Jessie.
  • DLA-1914-1. Issued a security update for icedtea-web fixing 3 CVE.
  • I have been working on a backport of opensc, a set of libraries and utilities to access smart cards that support cryptographic operations, from Stretch which will fix more than a dozen CVE.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my fifteenth month and I have been assigned to work 15 hours on ELTS of which I used 10 of them.

  •  I was in charge of our ELTS frontdesk from 26.08.2019 until 01.09.2019 and I triaged CVE in dovecot, libcommons-compress-java, clamav, ghostscript, gosa as end-of-life because security support for them has ended in Wheezy. There were no new issues for supported packages. All in all this was a rather unspectacular week.
  • ELA-156-1. Issued a security update for linux fixing 9 CVE.
  • ELA-154-2. Issued a regression update for openjdk-7 and nss because the removed classes in rt.jar caused the same issues in Wheezy too.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in July 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

DebConf 19 in Curitiba

I have been attending DebConf 19 in Curitiba, Brazil from 16.7.2019 to 28.7.2019. I gave two talks about games in Debian and the Long Term Support project, together with Hugo Lefeuvre, Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen. Especially the Games talk had some immediate positive impact. In response to it Reiner Herrmann and Giovanni Mascellani provided patches for release critical bugs related to GCC-9 and the Python 2 removal and we could already fix some of the more important problems for our current release cycle.
I had a lot of fun in Brazil and again met a couple of new and interesting people.  Thanks to all who helped organizing DebConf 19 and made it the great event it was!

Debian Games

  • We are back in business which means packaging new upstream versions of popular games. I packaged new versions of atomix, dreamchess and pygame-sdl2,
  • uploaded minetest 5.0.1 to unstable and backported it later to buster-backports,
  • uploaded new versions of freeorion and warzone2100 to Buster,
  • fixed bug #931415 in freeciv and #925866 in xteddy,
  • became the new uploader of enemylines7.
  • I reviewed and sponsored patches from Reiner Herrmann to port several games to python3-pygame including whichwayisup, funnyboat and monsterz,
  • from Giovanni Mascellani ember and enemylines7.

Debian Java

  • I packaged new upstream versions of robocode, jboss-modules, jboss-jdeparser2, wildfly-common, commons-dbcp2, jboss-logging-tools, jboss-logmanager, libpdfbox2.java, jboss-logging, jboss-xnio, libjide-oss-java,  sweethome3d, sweethome3d-furniture, pdfsam, libsambox-java, libsejda-java, jackson-jr, jackson-dataformat-xml, libsmali-java and apktool.

Misc

  • I updated the popular Firefox/Chromium addons ublock-origin, https-everywhere and privacybadger and also packaged new upstream versions of wabt and binaryen which are both required for building webassembly files from source.

Debian LTS

This was my 41. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 18,5 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • DLA-1854-1. Issued a security update for libonig fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1860-1. Issued a security update for libxslt fixing 4 CVE.
  • DLA-1846-2. Issued a regression update for unzip to address a Firefox build failure.
  • DLA-1873-1. Issued a security update for proftpd-dfsg fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1886-1. Issued a security update for openjdk-7 fixing 4 CVE.
  • DLA-1890-1. Issued a security update for kde4libs fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1891-1. Reviewed and sponsored a security update for openldap fixing 2 CVE prepared by Ryan Tandy.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my fourteenth month and I have been paid to work 15 hours on ELTS.

  • I was in charge of our ELTS frontdesk from 15.07.2019 until 21.07.2019 and I triaged CVE in openjdk7, libxslt, libonig, php5, wireshark, python2.7, libsdl1.2, patch, suricata and libssh2.
  • ELA-143-1. Issued a security update for libonig fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-145-1.  Issued a security update for libxslt fixing 2 CVE.
  • ELA-151-1. Issued a security update for linux fixing 3 CVE.
  • ELA-154-1. Issued a security update for openjdk-7 fixing 4 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in June 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.
First of all I want to thank Debian's Release Team. Whenever there was something to unblock for Buster, I always got feedback within hours and in almost all cases the package could just migrate to testing. Good communication and clear rules helped a lot to make the whole freeze a great experience.

Debian Games

  • I reviewed and sponsored a couple of packages again this month.
  • Reiner Herrmann provided a complete overhaul of xbill, so that we all can fight those Wingdows Viruses again.
  • He also prepared a new upstream release of Supertuxkart, which is currently sitting in experimental but will hopefully be uploaded to unstable within the next days.
  • Bernhard Übelacker fixed two annoying bugs in Freeorion (#930417) and Warzone2100 (#930942).  Unfortunately it was too late to include the fixes for Debian 10 in time but I will prepare an update for the next point release.
  • Well, the freeze is over now (hooray) and I intend to upgrade a couple of games in the warm (if you live in the northern hemisphere) month of July again .

Debian Java

  • I prepared another security update for jackson-databind to fix CVE-2019-12814 and CVE-2019-12384 (#930750).
  • I worked on a security update for Tomcat 8 but have not finished it yet.

Debian LTS

This was my fortieth month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 17 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • From 10.06.2019 until 16.06.2019 and from 24.06.2019 until 30.06.2019 I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I investigated and triaged CVE in wordpress, ansible, libqb, radare2, lemonldap-ng, irssi, libapache2-mod-auth-mellon and openjpeg2.
  • DLA-1827-1. Issued a security update for gvfs fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1831-1. Issued a security update for jackson-databind fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-1822-1. Issued a security update for php-horde-form fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1839-1. Issued a security update for expat fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1845-1.  Issued a security update for dosbox fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-1846-1.  Issued a security update for unzip fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1851-1. Issued a security update for openjpeg2 fixing 2 CVE.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my thirteenth month and I have been paid to work 22 hours on ELTS (15 hours were allocated + 7 hours from last month).

  • ELA-133-1. Issued a security update for linux fixing 9 CVE.
  • ELA-137-1. Issued a security update for libvirt fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-139-1. Issued a security update for bash fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-140-1. Issued a security update for glib2.0 fixing 3 CVE.
  • ELA-141-1. Issued a security update for unzip fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-142-1. Issued a security update for libxslt fixing 2 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in May 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • Like in previous release cycles I published a new version of debian-games at the end to incorporate the latest archive changes. Unfortunately, Netbeans, the Java IDE, cuyo and holdingnuts didn't make it and I demoted them to Suggests.
  • A longstanding graphical issue (#871223) was resolved in Neverball where stars in goal points were displayed as squares. As usual something (OpenGL-related?) must have changed somewhere but in the end the installation of some missing png files made the difference. How it worked without them before remains a mystery.
  • I sponsored two uploads which were later unblocked for Buster. Bernat reported a crash in etw, a football simulation game ported from the AMIGA. Fortunately Steinar H. Gunderson could provide a patch quickly. (#928240)
  • A rebuild of marsshooter, a great looking space shooter with an awesome soundtrack, may have been the trigger for a segmentation fault. Jacob Nevins stumbled over it and Bernhard Übelacker provided a patch to fix missing return statements.  (#929513)

Debian Java

  • I provided a security update for jackson-databind to fix CVE-2019-12086 (#929177) in Buster and prepared DSA-4452-1 to fix the remaining 11 CVE in Stretch.
  • Unfortunately Netbeans will not be in Buster. There were at least two issues why I could not recommend our Debian version, clear regressions in comparison to the version in Stretch. I found it odd that the severest one was fixed in Ubuntu shortly after the removal from testing. I surely would have appreciated the patch for Debian too. At the moment I don't believe I will continue to work on Netbeans, very time consuming to get it in shape for Debian, too many dependencies, where the slightest changes in r-deps may cause bugs in Netbeans, nobody else in the Java team is really interested and most Java developers probably install the upstream version. A really bad combination.

Misc

Debian LTS

This was my thirty-ninth month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 18 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • I investigated CVE-2019-0227, axis and suggested to mark it as unimportant. I triaged CVE-2019-0227, ampache as no-dsa for Jessie.
  • DLA-1798-1. Issued a security update for jackson-databind fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1804-1. Issued a security update for curl fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1816-1. Issued a security update for otrs2 fixing 2 CVE.
  • DLA-1753-3. Issued a regression update for proftpd-dfsg. When the creation of a directory failed during sftp transfer, the sftp session would be terminated instead of failing gracefully due to a non-existing debug logging function.
  • DLA-1821-1. I'm currently testing the next security update of phpmyadmin. I triaged or fixed 19 CVE.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my twelfth month and I have been paid to work 8 hours on ELTS (15 hours were allocated). I intend to use the remaining hours in June.

  • I investigated three CVE in pacemaker, CVE-2018-16877, CVE-2018-16878, CVE-2019-3885 and found that none of them affected Wheezy.
  • ELA-127-1. Issued a security update for linux and linux-latest fixing 15 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

My Free Software Activities in April 2019

Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.

Debian Games

  • This was a very quiet month compared to pre-freeze time. I reported three security vulnerabilities for Teeworlds (#927152) which were later fixed by Dylan Aïssi. Thank you.
  • I also reviewed and sponsored a new revision of OpenMW for Bret Curtis. I'm not sure why he didn't ask the release team for an unblock but there may be a reason.

Debian Java

  • I fixed a security vulnerability in robocode (#926088) and asked for an unblock.
  • I corrected a mistake in solr-tomcat and learned, if you want to override a service file of another package (tomcat9) the conf file has to be installed into
    /etc/systemd/system/tomcat9.service.d/

    instead of /etc/systemd/system/tomcat9.d.*sigh*

Misc

  • Last month I wrote about the challenges of the ublock-origin addon (#926586). We came to the conclusion that we can no longer provide one version for Firefox and Chromium but that we don't have to create two binary packages either. Now we use symlinks  and two different directories and hopefully this will solve all the troubles we had before. It is not a great solution but hopefully we can maintain the addon without relying on patches.  Thanks to Michael Meskes who implemented the changes. I will probably upload a new version to experimental in May, so that people can try it out and report back.

Debian LTS

This was my thirty-eight month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 17,25 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Raphaël Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

  • From 29.04.2019 until 05.05.2019 I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I investigated and triaged CVE in rebar, filezilla, lucene-solr, librecad, apparmor, phpbb3, jakarta-jmeter, jetty8, jetty, php-imagick and node-tar.
  • DLA-1753-2. Issued a regression update for proftpd-dfsg because it became clear that neither version 1.3.5.e nor 1.3.6 was a way forward to address the memory leaks because those versions also introduced new bugs that affected sftp setups negatively (#926719). I resolved these problems by backporting the patches for the memory leaks and by reverting to version 1.3.5 again.
  • DLA-1773-1. Issued a security update for signing-party fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1774-1. Issued a security update for otrs2 fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1775-1. Issued a security update for phpbb3 fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1776-1. Issued a security update for librecad fixing 1 CVE.
  • DLA-1785-1. Issued a security update for imagemagick together with Hugo Lefeuvre (3 CVE) fixing 50 CVE in total.

ELTS

Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 "Wheezy". This was my eleventh month and I have been paid to work 14,5 hours on ELTS.

  • I was in charge of our ELTS frontdesk from 15.04.2019 until 21.04.2019 and I triaged CVE in openjdk7, php5 and libvirt.
  • ELA-72-2. Issued a regression update for jasper which corrected the patch for CVE-2018-19542.
  • ELA-109-1. Issued a security update for jquery fixing 1 CVE.
  • ELA-111-1. Issued a security update for linux and linux-latest fixing 24 CVE.
  • ELA-117-1. Issued a security update for apache2 fixing 2 CVE and investigated four more CVE which I triaged as not-affected.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.