FOSS Activites in February 2023

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Here’s my (forty-first) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian

This was my 50th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/

There’s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:

Uploads

Others

  • Looked up some Release team documentation.
  • Sponsored php-font-lib and php-dompdf-svg-lib for William.
  • Granted DM rights for php-dompdf.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Reviewed micro bits for Nilesh, new uploads and changes.
  • Ruby sprints.
  • Bug work (on BTS and #debian-ruby) for rails and redmine.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

A huge thanks to Freexian for sponsoring my Debian work and Entrouvert for sponsoring the Redmine backports. :D

Ubuntu

This was my 25th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there’s a bunch of things I do! \o/

I mostly worked on different things, I guess.

I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there’s no concrete list atm. Maybe I’ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS

Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.

And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the stretch and jessie release (+2 years after LTS support).

This was my forty-first month as a Debian LTS and thirty-second month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 24.25 hours for LTS and 28.50 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

  • Fixed CVE-2022-47016 for tmux and uploaded to buster via 2.8-3+deb10u1.
    But decided to not roll the DLA for the package as the CVE got rejected upstream.
  • Issued DLA 3359-1, fixing CVE-2019-13038 and CVE-2021-3639, for libapache2-mod-auth-mellon.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 0.14.2-1+deb10u1.
  • Issued DLA 3360-1, fixing CVE-2021-30151 and CVE-2022-23837, for ruby-sidekiq.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.3+dfsg-1+deb10u1.
  • Worked on ruby-rails-html-sanitize and added notes to the security-tracker.
    TL;DR: we need newer methods in ruby-loofah to make the patches for ruby-rails-html-sanitize backportable.
  • Started to look at other set of packages meanwhile.

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

  • Issued ELA 813-1, fixing CVE-2017-12618 and CVE-2022-25147, for apr-util.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.4-1+deb8u1.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.4-3+deb9u1.
  • Issued ELA 814-1, fixing CVE-2022-39286, for jupyter-core.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.1-1+deb9u1.
  • Issued ELA 815-1, fixing CVE-2022-44792 and CVE-2022-44793, for net-snmp.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u6.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u5.
  • Helped facilitate RabbitMQ’s update queries by one of our customers.
  • Started to look at other set of packages meanwhile.

Other (E)LTS Work:

Until next time.
:wq for today.