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| author | Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> | 2013-06-08 07:12:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> | 2013-06-08 07:12:14 +0000 |
| commit | 2e058c1605387456f2f287ccf6520c66613bd6f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0cdfe89ae0a25c8e3bad97a6e7e1d0c877fde54d /doc/narrative_introduction | |
| parent | c7e36100155c5ab24828a885a2d522229e84a691 (diff) | |
Add paragraph about end-of-life packages
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@22537 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42
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diff --git a/doc/narrative_introduction b/doc/narrative_introduction index de7f188b64..4731725856 100644 --- a/doc/narrative_introduction +++ b/doc/narrative_introduction @@ -361,6 +361,22 @@ high : A typical, exploitable security problem, which you'll really Certain packages may get higher or lower rating than usual, based on their importance. +end-of-life packages +-------------------- + +In some rare cases (i.e. webprowsers) security support for some packages +needed to be stopped before the end of the regular security maintenance +life cycle. + +Packages which are not anymore supported by the security team in a +(old-stable release are marked with the end-of-life tag: + +CVE-2011-3973 (cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.7.4 and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 ...) + {DSA-2336-1} + - libav 4:0.7.1-7 (bug #641478) + - ffmpeg <removed> + - ffmpeg-debian <end-of-life> + NOTE and TODO entries --------------------- |