The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for August.
Activity summary
During the month of August, 19 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below).
The team released 58 DLAs fixing 1885 CVEs.
Debian 11 (“bullseye”), which has reached the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026, will now get security support from Freexian under the Extended LTS offer.
The team published several notable updates:
- chromium (DLA 4710-1), uploaded by Emilio, to fix 375 security flaws in bookworm, including issues that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Further DLA 4728-1, uploaded by Emilio as well, fixed additional 41 security issues in bookworm and DLA 4739-1 fixed 5 issues. Last but not least, DLA 4749-1 fixed another 15 issues and DLA 4758-1 fixed another 7 issues.
- ruby2.7 (DLA 4716-1), uploaded by Abhijith, to fix four security flaws in bookworm, including issues that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
- several DLAs (DLA 4717-1, DLA 4720-1, DLA 4723-1, DLA 4724-1, DLA 4745-1) have been uploaded by Ben and Emilio to fix myriad security flaws in different versions of the linux kernel (5.10.262-1, 6.1.180-1, 6.12.100-1~deb12u1, 6.12.101-1~deb12u1) in bullseye and bookworm.
- 7zip (DLA 4718-1) and p7zip (DLA 4719-1), uploaded by Sylvain, to fix multiple security flaws in bookworm and bullseye, including issues that could yield to remote code execution.
- ca-certificates (DLA 4726-1), uploaded by Bastien to add some new trusted certificates to bookworm and bullseye, but also remove some untrusted ones.
- thunderbird (DLA 4727-1 and DLA 4754-1), uploaded by Emilio to fix 35 and 31 issues in bookworm and bullseye.
- nss (DLA 4729-1), uploaded by Jochen to fix a vulnerability in bookworm and bullseye that could yield to arbitrary code execution.
- libgd2 (DLA 4731-1), uploaded by Guilhem to fix a vulnerability in bookworm and bullseye that could yield to arbitrary code execution if a malformed GIF file is processed.
- xorg-server (DLA 4737-1 and DLA 4738-1), uploaded by Arnaud to fix several vulnerabilities in bookworm and bullseye.
- postgresql-15 (DLA 4740-1), uploaded by Carlos Henrique Lima Melara to fix 26 vulnerabilities in bookworm.
- unzip (DLA 4741-1), uploaded by Andrej to fix a vulnerability in bookworm and bullseye that could yield to arbitrary code execution.
- firefox-esr (DLA 4750-1), uploaded by Emilio to fix 31 vulnerabilities in bookworm and bullseye that could potentially result in arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation or information disclosure.
- nvidia-graphics-drivers (DLA 4752-1 and DLA 4753-1), uploaded by Tobias to fix lots of vulnerabilities in bookworm and bullseye.
- roundcube (DLA 4760-1), uploaded by Guilhem to fix ten vulnerabilities in bookworm and bullseye that could potentially result in remote code execution or information disclosure.
Contributions from outside the LTS Team:
We are greatly thankful for the contributions from people outside the LTS Team:
- Salvatore Bonaccorso released a libyaml-syck-perl security update (DLA 4730-1), to fix a denial of service and potentially arbitrary code execution.
- Thomas Goirand released a neutron security update (DLA 4735-1).
- Thomas Goirand released an ironic security update (DLA 4743-1).
- Thomas Goirand released a designate security update (DLA 4751-1), to fix a denial of service or DNS hijacking.
The LTS Team has also contributed with updates to the latest Debian releases:
- xrdp (DSA 6469-1), prepared by Abhijith to address privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution related flaws.
Other contributions:
Besides the work on security updates, different documentation and tooling changes were needed. This work was mainly done by Sylvain.
Individual Debian LTS contributor reports
- Abhijith PA
- Andrej Shadura
- Arnaud Rebillout
- Bastien Roucariès
- Ben Hutchings
- Carlos Henrique Lima Melara
- Chris Lamb
- Daniel Leidert
- Emmanuel Arias
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
- Guilhem Moulin
- Jochen Sprickerhof
- Lee Garrett
- Lucas Kanashiro
- Markus Koschany
- Santiago Ruano Rincón
- Sylvain Beucler
- Thorsten Alteholz
- Tobias Frost
Thanks to our sponsors
Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- Toshiba Corporation (for 131 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 99 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 64 months)
- Gold sponsors:
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG (for 142 months)
- CONET Deutschland GmbH (for 125 months)
- University of Oxford (for 81 months)
- EDF SA (for 53 months)
- Dataport AöR (for 28 months)
- CERN (for 26 months)
- Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 146 months)
- Nantes Métropole (for 140 months)
- Akamai - Linode (for 136 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 132 months)
- Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 132 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 126 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 116 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 110 months)
- Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 94 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 81 months)
- Upsun Formerly Platform.sh (for 76 months)
- Moxa Inc. (for 69 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 67 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 65 months)
- Tilburg University (for 65 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 56 months)
- THINline s.r.o. (for 29 months)
- Copenhagen Airports A/S (for 23 months)
- Conseil Départemental de l’Isère (for 9 months)
- CEOS GmbH
- Bronze sponsors:
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 147 months)
- Evolix (for 146 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 144 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 143 months)
- WAAYS (for 142 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 141 months)
- Greenbone AG (for 140 months)
- NUMLOG (for 140 months)
- WinGo AG (for 139 months)
- Entr’ouvert (for 131 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 128 months)
- Plat’Home (for 125 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 123 months)
- Tesorion (for 123 months)
- Bearstech (for 114 months)
- LiHAS (for 114 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 109 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 103 months)
- Université Grenoble Alpes (for 89 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 81 months)
- SPiN AG (for 78 months)
- CoreFiling (for 74 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (for 65 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 60 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 60 months)
- CNRS DT INSU Résif (for 59 months)
- Alter Way (for 52 months)
- SOBIS Software GmbH (for 26 months)
- Tuxera Inc. (for 18 months)
- OPM-OP AS (for 9 months)
- LU-CIX Management G.I.E.