[pkg-ntp-maintainers] squeeze update of ntp?

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Kurt Roeckx, 13.02.2016 11:49:24 +0100 |=-
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:06:23AM +0000, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > Hello dear maintainer(s),
> > 
> > The Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are
> > currently open in the Squeeze version of ntp:
> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ntp
> 
> I was under the impression that squeeze LTS support ended?

Ends on 29 February. See 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2016/msg00002.html

> > Note that all of the squeeze-relevant issues are still open in the 
> > "newer" Debian releases (wheezy through sid).
> 
> I'm waiting for upstream to actually fix things.  I estimate it's
> going to take 2 months.

When this happens, do you plan to do a wheezy-lts upload too? (wheeszy 
will gain LTS support in March).

BTW CVE-2016-0727 seems to me to be Debian-specific, since the cron 
job is part of debian/. In case you missed it, there is a patch for it 
at 
http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/NtpCronjobUserNtpToRootPrivilegeEscalation/

> They're all not that important.

Cheers,
    dam
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