[tryton-debian] Security fix for safe_eval in Tryton server

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Oct 3 12:06:17 UTC 2014


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> * Mathias Behrle: " Re: Security fix for safe_eval in Tryton server" (Wed, 1
>   Oct 2014 13:22:14 +0200):
> 
> > * Raphael Hertzog: " Re: Security fix for safe_eval in Tryton server" (Wed, 1
> >   Oct 2014 00:28:23 +0200):
> > 
> > Hi Raphael,
> > 
> > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> > > > > BTW, what's the status for squeeze? The version there is even older but
> > > > > as we officially support LTS, it would be nice if you could provide me
> > > > > an update for that version too (in case it also applies).
> > > > 
> > > > As written in my original mail I didn't plan an upload for oldstable.
> > > > 
> > > > First because I really don't expect any user to run Tryton 1.6 any more.
> > > > Second it would be a stripped down version of the patches (only the one
> > > > for safe_eval), because ast is new in Python 2.6 (and squeeze has 2.5).
> > > 
> > > That's fine.
> > > 
> > > > If you estimate nevertheless, that the package should be done, I will
> > > > provide it.
> > > 
> > > Yes, please. I agree with you that probably nobody is using it but if it's
> > > not too much work, I believe it's good to live up to our new LTS promise.
> > > 
> > > The only alternative solution is to mark the package as unsupported in
> > > that release (via debian-security-support) and I'd rather avoid that.
> > 
> > Here comes the debdiff attached. Thanks for uploading.
> 
> Hi Raphael, hi Florian,
> 
> the fix for CVE-2014-6633 [1] caused a regression on the creation of strict
> sequences [2]. What is the best way to prepare the packages with the fix for
> [3]?

Good timing. I was about to release this this afternoon :-)
 
> - just doing another package for security.debian.org (it seems they are not yet
>   published?)
>   * tryton-server (2.2.4-1+deb7u2) stable-security; urgency=high
>   * tryton-server (1.6.1-2+squeeze3) oldstable-security; urgency=high

Please upload 2.2.4-1+deb7u2 to security-master.

For Squeeze please see https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development

Cheers,
        Moritz



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