Debian work in September 2015

Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:05:07 GMT

Debian LTS

September was the fifth month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. In total I spent eight hours working on:

glibc: I fixed four security issues resulting in DLA-316-1 mostly by backporting fixes from current Git. This involved some issues that didn't have a CVE assigned yet. Salvatore gave a nice summary on how to handle these.

nss: The backport of the fixes for CVE-2015-2721 and CVE-2015-2730 resulted in DLA-315-1.

Besides that I did CVE triaging of 9 CVEs to check if and how they affect oldoldstable security as part of my LTS front desk work.

Other Debian work

I finally sent out the summary of the 8th Debian Groupware Meeting we had in the Linuxhotel earlier this year and gave a short talk about Debian at the Zarafa Tour in the Netherlands.