Control: severity -1 serious On Sat, 17 May 2025 13:38:22 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:44:52PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:Package: libapache-sessionx-perl Version: 2.01-5 Severity: important Tags: security Hi, As discussed in oss-security[1], libapache-sessionx-perl uses a poor source of entropy in Apache::Session::Generate::MD5. The critical part is moving away from rand (e.g. to using urandom), but it would also be a good time to update the way the id is generated. The details are in the oss-sec thread. [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/15/1AFAICS libapache-sessionx-perl only exists to support libembperl-perl. As we're not going to ship libembperl-perl in trixie due to #1042845, I wonder if we should remove libapache-sessionx-perl from testing too?
Agreed. I'm raising the severity to trigger the auto-removal from testing.
Alternatively, the approach taken for libapache-session-perl #930659 (using Crypt::URandom) seems easy to apply here as well. https://sources.debian.org/src/libapache-session-perl/1.94-2/debian/patches/use-crypt-urandom.patch/
Ack, if someone is interested in the package; otherwise just getting it out of testing seems fine to me.
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