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Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-fifth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DSA 6402-1] hplip security update to fix two CVEs in Trixie related to privilege escalation and/or arbitrary code execution. I sent the debdiff Continue reading "My Debian Activities in July 2026"
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-fourth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4615-1] exim4 security update to fix one CVE related to information disclosure in combination with proxies. [DLA 4616-1] haveged security update to Continue reading "My Debian Activities in June…
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-third month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4580-1] exim4 security update to fix one CVE related to remote code execution. [DLA 4591-1] rsync security update to fix five CVEs Continue reading "My Debian Activities in May 2026"
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4530-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update to fix two CVEs related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media Continue reading "My Debian Activities in April 2026"
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-forty-first month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4500-1] gimp security update to fix four CVEs related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code. [DLA 4503-1] evolution-data-server to Continue reading "My Debian Activities in March 2026"
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-fortieth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4474-1] rlottie security update to fix three CVEs related to boundary checks. [DLA 4477-1] munge security update to fix one CVE related Continue reading "My Debian Activities in February 2026"
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-thirty-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian (as the LTS- and ELTS-teams have been merged now, there is only one paragraph left for both activities). During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4449-1] zvbi security update Continue reading "My Debian Activities in January 2026"
After the funding crisis at MITRE in the beginning of 2025, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA, European Network and Information Security Agency) started the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD). Since then some articles have been published that let this database appear in a unfavourable light, to put it charitably. An example of such article Continue reading "European…
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-thirty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. (As the LTS- and ELTS-teams have been merged now, there is only one paragraph left for both activities.) During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [cups] upload to unstable to Continue reading "My Debian Activities in December 2025"
Debian LTS/ELTS This was my hundred-thirty-seventh month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian and my eighty-eighth ELTS month. As the LTS- and ELTS-teams have been merged now, there is only one paragraph left for both activities. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: Continue reading "My Debian Activities in November 2025"