Bug#924060: Serious regression in systemd 215-17+deb8u10

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.03.19 um 19:17 schrieb Markus Koschany:
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> Am 11.03.19 um 15:51 schrieb Dan Poltawski:
>> Thanks for your responses. One of my colleagues has been looking into this trying to get the bottom of it and we do seem to have identified a memory leak which isn't present on stretch. I note the report posted to the list https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924060.
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> Thank you for sharing your analysis with us. I will prepare a regression update shortly.
> It appears the confusion stems from the fact that CVE-2018-16864 was already addressed
> by version 215-17+deb8u9. Thus nobody saw a connection between the memory leak and the recent
> upload which deals with another issue.

Thanks, Markus.

Also big thanks to the debian-lts team in general for backporting those
security fixes for the systemd package in old-stable.

Regards,
Michael
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