Introduction

You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the Debian stable tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. This is where backports come in.

Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates) in a stable environment so that they will run without new libraries (whenever it is possible) on a Debian stable distribution. It is recommended to select single backports which fit your needs, and not to use all available backports.

Where to start

News

Harald Jenny uploaded new packages for openswan which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-4073
  Use-after-free vulnerability in the cryptographic helper handler
  functionality in Openswan 2.3.0 through 2.6.36 allows remote
  authenticated users to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon
  crash) via vectors related to the (1) quick_outI1_continue and (2)
  quick_outI1 functions.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 1:2.6.28+dfsg-5+squeeze1~bpo50+1.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.6.28+dfsg-5+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.6.37-1.

Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions>

We recommend to pin (in /etc/apt/preferences) the backports repository
to 200 so that new versions of installed  backports will be installed
automatically.

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=lenny-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200
Posted Mon Jan 2 20:07:53 2012

This update to the NSS cryptographic libraries revokes the trust in the "DigiCert Sdn. Bhd" certificate authority. More information can be found in the Mozilla Security Blog: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/11/03/revoking-trust-in-digicert-sdn-bhd-intermediate-certificate-authority/

This update also fixes an insecure load path for pkcs11.txt configuration
file (CVE-2011-3640).

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed
in version 3.12.3.1-0lenny7.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 3.12.8-1+squeeze4~bpo50+1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.12.8-1+squeeze4.

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed
in version 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1~bpo60+1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1.

Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions>

We recommend to pin (in /etc/apt/preferences) the backports repository
to 200 so that new versions of installed  backports will be installed
automatically.

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=lenny-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200
Posted Tue Nov 15 07:23:14 2011

Andres Salomon uploaded new packages for openssl which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-3210
        Unsafe thread handling in ECDH ciphersuite allow denial of
        service attack.

CVE-2011-1945
        Timing attacks against ECDHE_ECDSA private keys.

CVE-2011-0014
        Remote denial of service attacks possible or information leak
        via malformed handshake messages.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.8o-4squeeze4~bpo50+1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), the problems have been fixed
in version 0.9.8o-4squeeze4.
Posted Mon Nov 14 04:20:38 2011

Andres Salomon uploaded new packages for libsndfile which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-2696
        Integer overflow by processing certain PARIS Audio Format
        (PAF) files.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.21-3+squeeze1~bpo50+1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.0.21-3+squeeze1.
Posted Mon Nov 14 04:20:30 2011

Andres Salomon uploaded new packages for apache2 which fixed the following security problem:

CVE-2011-3348
        Possible denial of service in mod_proxy_ajp if combined with
        mod_proxy_balancer.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.16-6+squeeze4~bpo50+1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.2.16-6+squeeze4.
Posted Mon Nov 14 04:20:22 2011

Mike Hommey uploaded new packages for icewease which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-3647

   "moz_bug_r_a4" discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in
   addon handling.

CVE-2011-3648

   Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that incorrect handling of Shift-JIS
   encodings could lead to cross-site scripting.

CVE-2011-3650

   Marc Schoenefeld discovered that profiling the Javascript code
   could lead to memory corruption.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.0.19-15 of the xulrunner source package.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 3.5.16-11~bpo50+1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.16-11.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0-1.

Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions>

We recommend to pin (in /etc/apt/preferences) the backports repository
to 200 so that new versions of installed  backports will be installed
automatically.

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=lenny-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200
Posted Fri Nov 11 14:05:42 2011

Micah Anderson uploaded new packages for puppet which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-3872
  Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.12 and 2.7.x before 2.7.6, and Puppet
  Enterprise (PE) Users 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 before 1.2.4, when signing an
  agent certificate, adds the Puppet master's certdnsnames values to the
  X.509 Subject Alternative Name field of the certificate, which allows
  remote attackers to spoof a Puppet master via a man-in-the-middle
  (MITM) attack against an agent that uses an alternate DNS name for the
  master, aka "AltNames Vulnerability."

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 2.7.6-1~bpo60+1.
Posted Tue Nov 1 14:36:03 2011

Guido Günther uploaded new packages for libvirt which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-2511
  Integer overflow in VirDomainGetVcpus

CVE-2011-1486
  Non thread safe error reporting

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.2-7~bpo60+1.

For the lenny-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.3-5+squeeze2~bpo50+2.

For lenny-backports only:

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the package
manually via "apt-get -t lenny-backports install <packagelist>" with
the packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.debian.org/Instructions>

We recommend to pin (in /etc/apt/preferences) the backports repository
to 200 so that new versions of installed  backports will be installed
automatically.

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=lenny-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200
Posted Wed Oct 19 16:16:55 2011

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for libreoffice which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-2713
  Red Hat, Inc. security researcher Huzaifa Sidhpurwala reported multiple
  vulnerabilities in the binary Microsoft Word (doc) file format importer
  of OpenOffice.org, a full-featured office productivity suite that
  provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 1:3.4.3-3~bpo60+1.
Posted Sat Oct 8 20:36:56 2011

Micah Anderson uploaded new packages for puppet which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2011-3848
  Kristian Erik Hermansen reported that an unauthenticated
  directory traversal could drop any valid X.509 Certificate Signing
  Request at any location on disk, with the privileges of the Puppet
  Master application.  This was found in the 2.7 series of Puppet, but
  the underlying vulnerability existed in earlier releases and could be
  accessed with different hostile inputs.

CVE-2011-3870
  Ricky Zhou discovered a potential local privilege escalation in the
  ssh_authorized_keys resource and theoretically in the Solaris and AIX
  providers, where file ownership was given away before it was written,
  leading to a possibility for a user to overwrite arbitrary files as
  root, if their authorized_keys file was managed.

CVE-2011-3869
  An insecure symlink attack could be made against the k5login type
  which would allow the owner of the home directory to symlink to
  anything on the system, and have it replaced with the "correct"
  content of the file, which can lead to a privilege escalation on
  puppet runs.

CVE-2011-3871
  A potential local privilege escalation was found in the --edit mode of
  'puppet resource' due to a persistant, predictable file name, which
  can result in editing an arbitrary target file, and thus be be tricked
  into running that arbitrary file as the invoking user. This command is
  most commonly run as root, this leads to a potential privilege
  escalation.


For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 2.7.1-1~bpo60+3.
Posted Mon Oct 3 14:58:37 2011