On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:34:09PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > I think it's sufficient if we fix this in a point update, can you take
> > care of that?
> 
> Do you think of Jessie or Wheezy? As far as I can see, Wheezy is
> not affected:
> https://sources.debian.net/src/xymon/4.3.0%7Ebeta2.dfsg-9.1/web/bb-ack.c/#L248

I hadn't checked the status in jessie yet, but I just did and you're
right: Wheezy/Squeeze is not affected.

For jessie we can follow the usual upload/unblock procedure.

> > Has this been forwarded upstream?
> 
> Christoph told me on IRC that upstream is aware of it and has patched
> it in SVN, too. I just digged around in upstream's SVN repository and
> I think this is the upstream fix:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7483/
> 
> Actually upstream fixed it in his latest release (4.3.18, September
> 2014) according to SVN:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/mailman/message/32876426/
> 
> But that version was never released, neither on SourceForge
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/) nor on the web
> page (https://www.xymon.com/) as both still list 4.3.17 as most recent
> release -- which is also the reason why I only discovered now that
> there actually is a new upstream release.
> 
> On the mailing list there is a thread asking about the status of
> 4.3.18 and someone found a tar ball at https://www.xymon.com/patches/.
> At least the FreeBSD port maintainer doesn't seem to consider that one
> "official" according to
> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-November/040653.html

Ok, I'll request a CVE on oss-security.

Cheers,
        Moritz


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