On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:44:37AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: shadow
> Severity: normal
> Tags: security sarge sid
> 
> It appears that, for some mysterious reason, the patch we applied in
> 4.0.3-30.3 for shadow is currently NOT applied in 4.0.3-31sarge4.
> 
> As a consequence, the version of shadow in sarge IS affected and I hereby
> tag this bug as release critical.
> 
> I'm preparing an urgent upload to t-p-u to fix this. The next upload to the
> unstable branch will also fix shadow there
> 
> Martin and security team people, CAN-2004-1001 stated that sid (and now
> sarge) are fixed, which they were back in November 2004.
> 
> I'm very probably responsible for the mistake at some moment in the
> complicated life of the shadow package these months. Please receive my
> apologies for the possible extra work if a security announcement is to be
> issued.

If you could add the fix for #307259 in the same upload, it'd be nice, I
think, even if its gravity is probably overflated.

Bye, Mt.

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