[Secure-testing-team] stable and oldstable update for #539699

[Michael S Gilbert]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:50:27 +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> local screen lock bypass vulnerability in xscreensaver is not important enough
> to get it fixed via regular security update in Debian stable and oldstable. It
> does not warrant a DSA.
>
> However it would be nice if this could get fixed via a regular point update[1].
> Please contact the release team for this.
>
> This is an automatically generated mail, in case you are already working on an
> upgrade this is of course pointless.
>
> For further information see:
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable

i have already prepared updates for etch and lenny, and have gotten
them approved by the release team [0].  i just need someone to sponsor
the uploads.

mike

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/09/msg00077.html