On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 23:23 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 23:19 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
> > 
> > On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 23:04 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 22:51 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > > The non-free proprietary nvidia-graphics-drivers version 375.66
> > > > in
> > > > Stretch is affected by CVE-2017-6257 and CVE-2017-6259. Debian
> > > > bug:
> > > > 
> > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869783
> > > > 
> > > > Please consider allowing the new upstream version 375.82, which
> > > > fixes
> > > > these CVEs, in proposed-updates. As usual with these proprietary
> > > > drivers, we cannot just cherry-pick the fixes for the CVEs as
> > > > they
> > > > are
> > > > in the binary blobs.
> > > > 
> > > > I have tested this new version on a Stretch amd64 desktop and
> > > > didn't
> > > > encounter any issue.
> > > > 
> > > > The debdiff from 375.66-2~deb9u1 to 375.82-1 is attached.
> > > 
> > > While I'm sure it's probably fine, could we have a diff of the
> > > proposed
> > > 375.82-1~deb9u1, as built and tested on stretch, please?
[...]
> > There were no changes when I opened the bug apart from the new
> > changelog entry.
> > 
> > Andreas has since committed 2 small fixes to the changelog as well,
> > inlined, just minor clarifications. I still find the way upstream
> > compiles their changelog quite confusing and often make mistakes when
> > copying over :-)
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> To further clarify, the debdiff I attached originally is the one from
> the source I built and tested on Stretch.

That's rather confusing, given that it had the changelog set to
"unstable"...

Regards,

Adam

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