On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:38:51AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 13 April 2018 at 11:51, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > | On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:14:18PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > > | > Further update. I took some files from the new (in-progress, unfinished it > | > seems) upstream of libxls at https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/, and > got > | > some advice from the libxls maintainer. > | > > | > He also put new issue tickets up, one per CVE: > | > https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues > | > > | > And that builds. It does not pass all unit tests (R / CRAN packages tend > to > | > have lots of those) but 'almost': 4 fail, 348 pass. > | > > | > We could release this, methinks. What is your recommendation (and it has > | > been years since I last had to do a security release so help is as always > | > appreciated). > | > | Do all of these patches/vulnerabilities apply to the version in stable? > > I took a first look. It might just be doable. > > | Then I'd say let's fix this via security.debian.org, see > | > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#bug-security-building > | for some references. > > Where would I get chroot for stable?
There's multiple options, but e.g. with pbuilder you can simply create one using: sudo pbuilder create --distribution stretch Cheers, Moritz