[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#836553: Bug#836553: poretools: short gpg key used in script

Afif Elghraoui afif at debian.org
Sun Sep 4 06:54:50 UTC 2016


Hello,

على السبت  3 أيلول 2016 ‫15:34، كتب D Haley:
> Package: poretools
> Version: 0.5.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Your package appears to contain commands which use a short gpg-key
> ID. These have recently been identified as potential security concerns,
> due to a chance that the wrong key can be imported in the case of a
> forced key-ID collision [1].
> 
> The affected file is:
>  Dockerfile [2]
> 
> Its not clear to me that the affected file is actually used in the build
> script, but it may be referenced somewhere in the package
> 

Yes, this file is not used at all during the build process or
distributed in the binary package. I believe it's just used by upstream.
I can repack the tarball and exclude this file if that will alleviate
concerns.

Thanks and regards
Afif

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