[Mageia-dev] Security updates - Help needed!

Wed Jul 4 00:37:39 CEST 2012

There are several packages that need security updates that either have not been built yet, or there are some issues that need help and/or input from packagers.
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+Please help out with these where you can.
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+I'll try to organize these into categories and give a little info on them so it's easy to see if you can and want to help.
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+Web apps
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+mediawiki - versions we have are at or nearing EOL upstream, probably should be updated.  Several security issues are present.
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3448
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+dokuwiki - needs updated to 2012-01-25a version, already in Cauldron.  Cauldron package does have a bug that needs fixing.
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6166
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6480
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+wordpress - needs updated to 3.4.1, also QA has found some bugs in the current package.
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4065
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+viewvc - needs updated to 1.1.15
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6551
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+ocsinventory - Mageia 1 package needs to be updated or patched (patches available from MDV)
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5252
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2129
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+drupal - update built, issues found by QA need fixing
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5844
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+GNOME software
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+libgdata - update needed for Mageia 1, may require patch or upgrade to libsoup
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6330
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+libvirt - patch available from RedHat
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6526
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+vte - patch available from Fedora
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6161
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+gjs - doesn't rebuild against xulrunner in Mageia 1, but doesn't seem to be used by anything
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6382
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+Games
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+ioquake3, openarena, urbanterror, alienarena - affected by DoS bug in quake3 engine
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5496
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+Java-related
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+poi - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011
+apache-commons-compress - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6331
+spring2 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6625
+eclipse - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6611
+avalon-framework - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4524
+jsr-305 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4525
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+Ruby-related
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+Several security issues, at least one packaging issue, and an rpm issue
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6487
+http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/16419/match=ruby
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+No response has been received from packagers yet
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+graphicsmagick - needs updated to 1.3.16 or patch backported, upstream patch linked in bug
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561
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+python-httplib2 - possible basis for patch (based on patch from SuSE) available in bug
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6568
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+openconnect - needs updated to at least 3.18 or patched (upstream patch linked in bug), possible bug also found by user
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6504
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6627
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+dropbear - Debian and upstream patches differ, no response received from upstream either.  Patch proposed.
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5611
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+busybox - link to upstream patch available in bug
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6673
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+gc - links to upstream and Fedora patches available in bug
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6652
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+abrt/libreport/btparser - should probably be upgraded to newer versions available from RedHat
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6523
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+sos - 62 patches available from Fedora
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6525
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+v8 - might need to be updated to newer version
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6679
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+php-ZendFramework - patches available from Debian
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6666
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+In progress (help needed to finish)
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+sympa - update needs to be built for Mageia 2, issues have been found by QA that need fixed
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5939
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+groff - several scripts apparently need moved from main package to groff-perl (whose description needs rewritten or rethought), security issue already patched
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6379
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+python - update for Mageia 2 built, update for Mageia 1 still needed (patches possibly available from MDV)
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5843
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+cifs-utils/samba - cifs-utils is actually already done, patch needs applied to Samba as well
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5714
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+gajim - there is a requires or suggests missing
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5432
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