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Main Home News Instructions Packages Mailinglists Contribute Documentation FAQ Miscellaneous Uploaders Bullseye-sloppy Bullseye Bookworm NEW Queue Diffstats bullseye bullseye-sloppy bookworm Feedback 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 It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions.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 packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. Because the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily upgrade your stable+backports system once the next Debian release comes out. (In a few cases, usually for security updates, backports are also created from the Debian unstable distribution.) Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable. Use with care! It is therefore recommended to only select single backported packages that fit your needs, and not use all available backports. Where to start Users should start at the Instructions page. Contributors should start Contribute page. If you want to know which packages are available via backports.debian.org look at the Packages page. News RSS Atom Removal of buster-backports from the debian archive does not support LTS [1], therefore buster-backports is unsupported since August 1st 2022. Despite of the documentation buster-backport was still available on the mirrors, that changed recently with the archival of buster-backports. Unfortunately we missed to create an announcement in 2022 which led so some surprise. Please take this as the missing announcement. Posted Tue Apr 16 21:00:07 2024 BSA-117 Security Update for xerial-sqlite-jdbc Pierre Gruet uploaded new packages for xerial-sqlite-jdbc which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2023-32697 It was discovered that xerial-sqlite-jdbc had a remote code execution vulnerability via JDBC URL, which was caused by a predictable UUID choice. For the bullseye-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 3.36.0.3+dfsg1-3~bpo11+2. Posted Mon Jul 17 21:14:45 2023 bullseye-backports et all bullseye-backports and buster-backports-sloppy started From now on you can upload packages to those two distributions. Please ensure to follow the rules of those distributions (yes, that means you can’t upload packages to bullseye-backports now that are not in testing ;)) stretch-backports discontinued Following the rules oldstable backports was discontinued some time ago, but we never announced that offically. Please do not upload anything to oldstable backports. security uploads Announcing security updates didn’t worked well in the past. We therefore decided to change the mechanism security announcements work. Every Debian contributor (DM/DD) can now send a signed mail to the debian-backports-announce mailinglist. Please follow the template when doing so. The contribution document also shows how to reserve a BSA by doing a merge request to the website. new backports maintainers I am happy to announce that Thorsten Glaser (tg) and Micha Lenk (micha) will join us a backports ftpmasters. They are not yet onboarded, but that will happen soon. Please give them a warm welcome. updates for the website If you have something to contribute for our webseite, feel free to create an issue or (even better) create a merge request against https://salsa.debian.org/backports-team/backports-website Thanks Alex - backports ftpmaster [1] https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ [2] https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ [3] https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index4h2 Posted Fri Aug 6 21:46:49 2021 buster-backports Now that buster was released we are pleased to announce the availability of buster-backports and stretch-backports-sloppy. What to upload where As a reminder, uploads to a release-backports pocket are to be taken from release + 1, uploads to a release-backports-sloppy pocket are to be taken from release + 2. Which means: Source Distribution Backports Distribution Sloppy Distribution buster stretch-backports - bullseye buster-backports stretch-backports-sloppy Backports and LTS Please keep in mind that backports doesn’t follow LTS. Which means that we will drop support for oldstable (stretch) around one year after the release of buster. Thats in sync with the - official - security support for oldstable BSA Security Advisories We plan to switch the security-announce mailinglist to keyring based authentication, which means that every DD and DM is able to publish its own BSA advisories. We will send out a seperate announcement after the switch happened - and of course update the documentation Statistics For packages backported from buster, so far we have 1624 different source packages in stretch-backports. Those 1624 source packages took 2821 uploads from 252 uploaders to become reality. Thanks Thanks have to go out to all people making backports possible, and that includes up front the backporters themself who do upload the packages, track and update them on a regular basis, but also the buildd team making the autobuilding possible and the ftp masters for creating the suites in the first place. Happy Backporting! Alex and Rhonda - backports.debian.org ftpmasters Posted Tue Jul 16 19:51:07 2019 BSA-118 Security Update for mosquitto Philippe Coval uploaded new packages for mosquitto which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2021-34434 In Eclipse Mosquitto versions 2.0 to 2.0.11, when using the dynamic security plugin, if the ability for a client to make subscriptions on a topic is revoked when a durable client is offline, then existing subscriptions for that client are not revoked. For the bookworm-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 2.0.15-2~bpo12+1. Posted Wed Aug 16 00:00:00 2017 BSA-116 Security Update for openvpn Bernhard Schmidt uploaded new packages for openvpn which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2017-7479 It was discovered that openvpn did not properly handle the rollover of packet identifiers. This would allow an authenticated remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash. CVE-2017-7508 Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle specific malformed IPv6 packets. This would allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash. CVE-2017-7520 Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle clients connecting to an HTTP proxy with NTLMv2 authentication. This would allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash, or potentially leak sensitive information like the user’s proxy password. CVE-2017-7521 Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle some x509 extensions. This would allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash. For the jessie-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 2.4.0-6+deb9u1~bpo8+1. Posted Tue Jul 4 21:15:59 2017 BSA-115 Security Update for salt Al Nikolov uploaded new package for salt which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2017-8109 The salt-ssh minion code in SaltStack Salt 2016.11 before 2016.11.4 copied over configuration from the Salt Master without adjusting permissions, which might leak credentials to local attackers on configured minions (clients). For the jessie-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version 2016.11.2+ds-1~bpo8+2. Posted Mon Jun 26 22:16:01 2017 stretch-backports With the release of stretch we are pleased to open the doors for stretch-backports and jessie-backports-sloppy. \o/ As usual with a new release we will change a few things for the backports service. What to upload where As a reminder, uploads to a release-backports pocket are to be taken from release + 1, uploads to a release-backports-sloppy pocket are to be...