Bug#691451: lgeneral: ships non-free files in contrib

2012-10-31 Thread Markus Koschany
On Wed, 31. Oct 18:15 Moritz Muehlenhoff  wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> I will review and upload your package in the next weeks (I won't have time
> before, so if anyone wants to do it earlier, please go ahead).

Hi Moritz, thanks for your offer! 

> 
> The changes needed to fix lgeneral are massive and not suitable for inclusion
> in Wheezy at this point. Do you agree with removal from Wheezy for now?
> Once lgeneral ius fixed in sid, we can provide an updated package in 
> wheezy-backports.

I fully agree with you here. That sounds like a reasonable decision. I'm
also in contact with the author of LGeneral. He is very helpful and i
think it's likely that the next release won't contain these files
anymore. 

Cheers,

Markus


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Bug#691451: lgeneral: ships non-free files in contrib

2012-10-31 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 03:15:31PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> tags 691451 patch
> thanks
> 
> My new package is available at mentors.debian.net
> 
> http://mentors.debian.net/package/lgeneral
> 
> and in Git at
> 
> http://git.debian.org/pkg-games/lgeneral.git
> 
> Please see also bug #690683.

Hi Markus,
I will review and upload your package in the next weeks (I won't have time
before, so if anyone wants to do it earlier, please go ahead).

The changes needed to fix lgeneral are massive and not suitable for inclusion
in Wheezy at this point. Do you agree with removal from Wheezy for now?
Once lgeneral ius fixed in sid, we can provide an updated package in 
wheezy-backports.

Cheers,
Moritz


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Bug#689417: opencryptoki: CVE-2012-4454 CVE-2012-4455

2012-10-31 Thread Pierre Chifflier
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:21:07PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:57:38PM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 14:37 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > Please see the thread starting at
> > > http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/2
> > > for details.
> > 
> > I've had a quick look at this bug to see if it can be fixed in Debian.
> > There are four patches referenced in the thread (I haven't verified if
> > there are more patches required):
> > 
> > - 
> > http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki;a=commitdiff;h=b7fcb3eb0319183348f1f4fb90ede4edd6487c30
> >   32 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 1166 deletions(-)
> >   This change is huge and mainly seems to be quivalent to setting
> >   SPINXPL as defined and ensuring SYSVSEM isn't. There are however a few
> >   other changes in there which may be due to the removal of the
> >   compatibility code.
> >   This patch doesn't apply cleanly to 2.3.1 in Debian but I've managed
> >   to manually fix it (attached is a version if anyone is interested).
> > - 
> > http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki;a=commitdiff;h=58345488c9351d9be9a4be27c8b407c2706a33a9
> >   31 files changed, 2975 insertions(+), 280 deletions(-)
> >   Lots of changes in the tests but it also seems to contain some
> >   cleanups related to the previous change, a change from lock_shm() to
> >   XProcLock(), some moving of locks to /var/lock and a few other
> >   changes.
> > - 
> > http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki;a=commitdiff;h=8a63b3b17d34718d0f8c7525f93b5eb3c623076a
> >   23 files changed, 449 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
> >   Includes a FAQ typo fix and the introduction of a lot of new code.
> > - 
> > http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki;a=commitdiff;h=5667edb52cd27b7e512f48f823b4bcc6b872ab15
> >   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >   Very small change in the Makfile which creates the lock directory.
> >   Should not be relevant for Debian because subdirectories of /var/lock
> >   should be created on the fly.
> > 
> > The changes are huge and can probably not be easily backported to
> > Debian's 2.3.1. A few other options come to mind:
> > - see if upstream can provide patches for 2.3.1
> > - see if the necessary fixes can be made some other way
> > - upgrade to upstream 2.4.2
> > - remove from wheezy
> > (the only reverse dependency for opencryptoki seems to be tpm-tools)
> > 
> > Anyway, I don't think I can do much more for this bug because I'm afraid
> > it will take a little more time than I have available at the moment. I
> > was having a look and I though I would just add my notes to the bug log.
> > 
> > Good luck with this bug! ;)
> 
> Removing opencryptoki from Wheezy seems best to me. We should't keep
> outdated crypto toolkits without an active maintainer in the archive.
> 
> CCing the Pierre, the tpm-tools maintainer to see, whether tpm-tools
> is usable withput opencryptoki or whether he's interested in adopting
> it himself.
> 

Hi,

IMHO the best solution would be to upgrade opencryptoki, including
Wheezy. Trying to backport many patches will be complex to maintain and
will create a version that could be very different from upstream,
leading to bugs (on functionalities, and security).
tpm-tools can be compiled without opencryptoki, but this would disable
the pkcs#11 support and so loose some functionalities. Except the
dependency in debian/control, there should not be any other changes to
be done.

Cheers,
Pierre


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