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Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 14:54:45 +0200
From: Sven Kieske <s.kieske@...twald.de>
To: <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: ImageMagick Is On Fire -- CVE-2016-3714
On 19/05/16 19:07, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> As an example Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (which is supposed to be getting
> security updates) has not provided ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick
> package updates in 3 years.
Hi,
as you can see here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/graphicsmagick
GM in Ubuntu resides in the "universe" repository
When you read up about "universe" here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
you will see that:
"Universe - Community maintained software, i.e. not officially supported
software."
which means all software from universe is _not_ officially supported
by canonical and thus receives only timely updates, if a community
member picks up the necessary work.
Too also quote from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
"The LTS designation applies only to specific subsets of the Ubuntu
archive."
See also this (german) article about packages which do not
get security updates in Ubuntu "LTS" releases, because they are
only community maintained:
http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Ubuntu-LTS-Langzeitpflege-gibt-es-nur-fuer-das-Wichtigste-3179960.html
There is also a command line tool to find out about unsupported
packages:
ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported
HTH
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