Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for December.

Activity summary

During the month of December, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below).

The team released 41 DLAs fixing 252 CVEs.

The team currently focuses on preparing security updates for Debian 11 “bullseye”, but also looks for contributing with updates for Debian 12 “bookworm”, Debian 13 “trixie” and even Debian unstable.

Notable security updates:

  • libsoup2.4 (DLA-4398-1), prepared by Andreas Henrikson, fixing several vulnerabilities.
  • glib2.0 (DLA-4412-1), published by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, addressing multiple issues.
  • lasso (DLA-4397-1), prepared by Sylvain Beucler, addressing multiple issues, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2025-47151)
  • roundcube (DLA 4415-1), prepared by Guilhem Moulin, fixing a cross-site-scripting (XSS) (CVE-2025-68461) and an information disclosure (CVE-2025-68460) vulnerabilities
  • mediawiki (DLA 4428-1), published by Guilhem, fixing multiple vulnerabilities could lead to information disclosure, denial of service or privilege escalation.
  • While the DLA has not been published yet, Charles Henrique Melara proposed upstream fixes for seven CVEs in ffmpeg: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/21275.
  • python-apt (DLA 4408-1), prepared by Utkarsh Gupta, in coordination with the Debian Security Team and Julian Andres Klode, the apt’s maintainer.
  • libpng1.6 (DLA-4396-1), published by Tobias Frost, completing the work started the previous month.

Notable non-security updates:

  • tzdata (DLA-4403-1), prepared by Emilio, including the latest changes to the leap second list and its expiry date, which was set for the end of December.

Contributions from outside the LTS Team:

  • Christoph Berg, co-maintainer of PostgreSQL in Debian, prepared a postgresql-13 update, released as DLA-4420-1

The LTS Team has also contributed with updates to the latest Debian releases:

Individual Debian LTS contributor reports

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