FOSS Activites in March 2021

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Here’s my (eighteenth) monthly update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian

This was my 27th month of active contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas ‘19! \o/

This month was a bit exhausting; lots of moving parts. With the financial year ending, it was even more crazy, with me running around to banks, CA, et al.
Anyway, with now working on Ubuntu full-time, I did little of Debian this month. Here are the following things I worked on:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:

  • Attended the Debian LTS team meeting.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

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 Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support).

This was my eighteenth month as a Debian LTS and ninth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 60.00 hours for LTS and 39.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:

  • Front-desk duty from 01-03 until 07-03 for ELTS and then from 29-03 until 04-04 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged wpa, python-aiohttp, spip, wpa, qemu, tomcat7, tomcat8, grub2, mupdf, openssh, tiff, spice, pillow, xmlgraphics-commons, batik, libupnp, ca-certificates, salt, squid3, shibboleth-sp2, courier-authlib, cloud-init, spamassassin, openssl, libcaca, and openjpeg2.
  • Marked CVE-2021-21330/python-aiohttp as not-affected for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20233, CVE-2021-20225, CVE-2020-27779, CVE-2020-27778, CVE-2020-27749, CVE-2020-27748, CVE-2020-25647, CVE-2020-25632, CVE-2020-25631, and CVE-2020-14372, affecting grub2, as ignored for stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-27842/openjpeg2 as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-27843/openjpeg2 as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-28041/openssh as not-affect for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-3552{3,4}/tiff as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20201/spice as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-11988/xmlgraphics-commons as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-11987/batik as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-12695/libupnp as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-25122/tomcat7 as not-affected for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-25329/tomcat7 as ignored for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-28116/squid3 as postponed for stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-3449/openssl as not-affected for stretch.
  • Document extra notes for grub2 for LTS and co-ordinate with the sec-team.
  • Document extra notes for pillow about piled-up issues in jessie.
  • Issued DLA-2593-1 for ca-certificates on Microsoft’s request; co-ordinating w/ them.
  • Co-ordinating w/ maintainer of courier-authlib for stretch and jessie update.
  • Fixing build failures of ELTS’ security tracker and re-ordering entries in data/CVE-EXTENDED-LTS/list file.
  • Answer queries of dupondje and mikap about openssl on IRC; and it being not-affected for stretch.
  • Help review the status of CVE-2021-3121/golang-github-gogo-protobuf-dev for Ola.
  • Co-ordinating w/ Noah for cloud-init and setuptools.
  • Auto EOL’ed mongodb, linux, guacamole-client, node-xmlhttprequest, newlib, neutron, privoxy, glpi, and zabbix for jessie.
  • Attended monthly meeting for Debian LTS.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.

Until next time.
:wq for today.