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Duncan wrote: |
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>OK, the following was in the GLSA |
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> Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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> 1 emul-linux-x86-baselibs < 2.2 >= 2.2 |
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> # Package 1 only applies to AMD64 users. |
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>I upgraded to 2.2.2 yesterday. Now, it wants to downgrade to 2.1.2, which |
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>the above says will still be vulnerable. |
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>Looking at the changelog, it appears 2.2.x had quite a number of bugs. |
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>There's a statement in there that /appears/ to suggest that the fixes for |
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>the zlib security issue were backported to the new 2.1.2, but we don't |
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>have an updated GLSA officially confirming that. As this is a security |
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>issue, I'm sure folks can understand why I'm a bit leery of trusting a |
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>changelog entry that's contradicting an official GLSA. |
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>Is the 2.1.2 legit and fixed, or is somebody trying to man-in-the-middle |
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>things? Assuming it's legit, would it be possible to have a duly and |
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>officially signed GLSA update to that effect? |
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>In the admittedly unlikely event that it's /not/ legit, then we have a |
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>/very/ serious man-in-the-middle cracking attempt going on! |
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by my experience, version 2.2.2 breaks my mplayer32 and firefox-bin. |
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Errors about missing libgobject.so.0 and libslang.so.0. |
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Both libs was present in the system. |
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I had to downgrade and both works well. |
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michalz |
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