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In June 2019, I did not at all reach my goal of LTS/ELTS hours, unfortunately. (At this point, I could come up with a long story about our dog'ish family member and the infection diseases he got, the vet visits we did and the daily care and attention he needed, but I won't...).

I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 9,75 hours (of 17 hours planned) and on the Debian ELTS project just for 1 hour (of 12 hours planned) as a paid contributor.

LTS Work

• LTS: Setup physical box running Debian jessie (for qemu testing)
• LTS: Bug hunting mupdf regarding my CVE-2018-5686 patch backport
• LTS: Upload to jessie-security: mupdf (DLA-1838-1), 3 CVEs [1]
• LTS: Glib2.0: request CVE Id (CVE-2019-13012) + email communication with upstream [2] (minor issue for Glib2.0 << 2.60)
• LTS: cfengine3: triage CVE-2019-9929, email communication with upstream (helping out security team) [3]

ELTS Work

• Upload to wheezy-lts: expat (ELA 136-1), 1 CVE [4]

References

• [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00027.html
• [2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13012
• [3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9929
• [4] https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/updates/ela-136-1-expat/

This is merely a little reminder for myself:

for pid in `ps -C <process-name> -o pid=`; do ls -l "/proc/$pid/fd"; done

On Linux, this returns a list of file handles being held open by all instances of <process-name>.

Update (2019-06-27): Martin Schuster suggested an even nicer (and regarding the output seemingly a more complete) approach to me by email:

lsof -c /^<process-name>$/ -a -d ^mem

In May 2019, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 23.75 hours (as planned) and on the Debian ELTS project for another 10 hours (as planned) as a paid contributor.

LTS Work

• Upload to jessie-security: 389-ds-base (DLA 1779-1), 1 CVE [1]
• Upload to jessie-security: qt4-x11 (DLA 1786-1), 5 CVEs [2]
• Upload to jessie-security: libav (DLA 1809-1), 2 CVEs [3]
• Prepare a test-build for qemu [4]. Testing still pending.
• Prepare a test-build for mupdf [5]. Testing still pending.
• Triaging of open CVEs for 12 packages

ELTS Work

• Dive deeply into questionable issues that were open for pacemaker.
  • CVE-2018-16877/pacemaker -> not affected
  • CVE-2018-16878/pacemaker -> ignored -> not affected
• Upload to wheezy-lts: sqlite3 (ELA 123-1), 1 CVE [6]
• Upload to wheezy-lts: glib2.0 (ELA 125-1), 1 CVE [7]

References

• [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00008.html
• [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00014.html
• [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00043.html
• [4] http://packages.sunweavers.net/debian/pool/main/q/qemu/
• [5] http://packages.sunweavers.net/debian/pool/main/m/mupdf/
• [6] https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/updates/ela-123-1-sqlite3/
• [7] https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/updates/ela-125-1-glib2.0/

In April 2019, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 11.5 hours (of 17.25 hours planned, pulling over 5.75 hours to the next month) and on the Debian ELTS project for another 10 hours (of 10 hours planned) as a paid contributor.

LTS Work

• Upload to jessie-security: libssh2 (DLA-1730-2 [1], regression fix)
• Upload to jessie-security: poppler (DLA-1752-1 [2])
• Upload to jessie-security: samba (DLA-1754-1 [3])
• Upload to jessie-security: systemd (DLA-1762-1 [4])
• Upload to jessie-security: systemd (DLA-1762-2 [5], regression fix)

ELTS Work

• Help fixing sbuild in Debian 10, so it still supports building packages for Debian wheezy.

In March 2019, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 14 hours (of 10 hours planned plus 4 hours pulled over from February) and on the Debian ELTS project for another 2 hours (of originally planned 6 hours) as a paid contributor.

LTS Work

• CVE triaging (ntp, glib2.0, libjpeg-turbo, cron, otrs2, poppler)
• Sponsor upload to jessie-security (aka LTS): cron (DLA 1723-1 [1])
• Upload to jessie-security (aka LTS): openssh (DLA 1728-1 [2])
• Upload to jessie-security (aka LTS): libssh2 (DLA 1730-1 [3])
• Upload to jessie-security (aka LTS): libav (DLA 1740-1 [4])

ELTS Work

• Create .debdiff for cron src:pkg targetting wheezy (but I failed to build it due to two issues with Debian 10 as build machine)
• Discover and document that kernel boot parameter "vsyscall=emulate" is required for building wheezy packages on Debian 10. (See #844350 and #845942 for details).
• Bug hunt sbuild bug #926161 in sbuild 0.78.1-1 [5]

References

• [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00025.html
• [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00030.html
• [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00032.html
• [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.html
• [5] https://bugs.debian.org/926161

Today, I talked to Christoph. He is from a local, rather new intiative here in Nothern Germany:

     Picknick im Funkloch

(Picnic in the Dead Zone).

We discussed how DAS-NETZWERKTEAM (my FLOSS business) can support that initiative on the technical level (we will start with mailing lists).

The Picnic in the Dead Zone initiative aims at making people more aware of possible health and social consequences that may be caused by the upcoming 5G mobile standard reaching 90%-plus coverage.

Personally, I know individual people who are (highly) sensitive to electro-magnetic radiation and fields (they can tell you if wireless network is on or off, tell you which access point where in the house is on or off, can differentiate between WiFi and PoweLAN, etc.). For people with such a sensitivity it is crucial to have spots in the country they want to live in, where electro-magnetic radiation is at a minimum level. Mobile connectivity does not work for everyone. Hyper-sensitive people suffer from it, in fact.

@all-the-Germans: Currently, there is an ePetition waiting for (maybe your) signature(s) on the German Bundestag's ePetition home page. The signing deadline is pretty close: 4th April 2019.

In February 2019, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 6 hours (of originally planned 10 hours) and on the Debian ELTS project for another 6 hours as a paid contributor. The non-worked 4 LTS hours I will carry over into March 2019.

LTS Work

• Upload and announce FreeRDP security fixes and RDP v6 / CredSSP v3 proto updates (DLA-1666-1 [1])

ELTS + LTS Work (shared hours)

• Chew on OpenSSH security fixes. Esp. CVE-2019-6111 caused me headaches with the final result that the said fix for CVE-2019-6111 did not fix it entirely. See Debian bug #923486 [2].

CVE-2019-6111 has already been amended fully now in Debian unstable's and stable's version of OpenSSH. For jessie LTS a fixed version will be provided within the next couple of days.

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00015.html
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923486

Believe it or not, I just upgraded my old Drupal 6 instances serving e.g. my blog [1] to Drupal 6 LTS v6.49.

Thanks a lot to Elliot Christenson for continuing Drupal 6 security support. See [2] for more information about Drupal 6 LTS support provided by his company.

[1] https://sunweavers.net/blog
[2] https://www.mydropwizard.com/blog

In January 2019, I have worked on the Debian LTS project for 10 hours and on the Debian ELTS project for 2 hours (of originally planned 6 + 1 hours) as a paid contributor. The non-worked 5 ELTS hours I have given back to the pool of available work hours.

LTS Work

• Fix one CVE issue in sssd (DLA-1635-1 [1]).
• Fix five CVE issues in libjpeg-turbo (DLA 1638-1 [2]).
• Fix some more CVE issues in libav (DLA-1654-1 [3]).
• FreeRDP: patch rebasing and cleanup.
• FreeRDP: Testing the proposed uploads, sending out a request for testing [4], provide build previews, some more patch work.
• Give feedback to the Debian stable release team on the planned FreeRDP 1.1 uploads to Debian jessie LTS and Debian stretch.
• Some little bit of CVE triaging during my LTS frontdesk week (a very quiet week it seemed to me)

The new FreeRDP versions have been uploaded at the beginning of February 2019 (I will mention that properly in my next month's LTS work summary, but you may already want to take a glimnpse at DLA-1666-1 [5]).

ELTS Work

• Start working on OpenSSH security issues currently effecting Debian wheezy ELTS (and also Debian jessie LTS).

The pressing and urgent fixes for OpenSSH will be uploaded during the coming week.

Thanks to all LTS/ELTS sponsors for making these projects possible.

light+love

All family members (including myself) are healthy and well, so I am sitting on my yearly train to Belgium. Looking forward to meeting many of you there.

light+love
Mike