libtins - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: libtins (main)
version: 4.5-1.1
maintainer: Internet Measurement Packaging Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Federico Ceratto [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.2.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 4.0-1
oldstable: 4.0-1
stable: 4.5-1
testing: 4.5-1.1
unstable: 4.5-1.1

versioned links

4.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.5-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.5-1.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libtins-dev
libtins4.5

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Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  https://github.com/mfontanini/libtins/tags failed: 500 Header line too long (limit is 8192)

Created: 2026-10-24 Last update: 2026-10-28 07:32

The VCS repository is not up to date, push the missing commits. high

vcswatch reports that the current version of the package is not in its VCS.
Either you need to push your commits and/or your tags, or the information about the package's VCS are out of date. A common cause of the latter issue when using the Git VCS is not specifying the correct branch when the packaging is not in the default one (remote HEAD branch), which is usually "master" but can be modified in salsa.debian.org in the project's general settings with the "Default Branch" field). Alternatively the Vcs-Git field in debian/control can contain a "-b <branch-name>" suffix to indicate what branch is used for the Debian packaging.

Created: 2018-09-25 Last update: 2026-10-26 04:51

2 security issues in trixie high

There are 2 open security issues in trixie.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-112273: libtins through 4.6 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::compose_name in src/dns.cpp that allows remote attackers to read past the packet buffer by sending a label ending exactly at the packet end. Attackers can deliver crafted DNS packets whose additional, answer, or authority records trigger a one-byte read when parsed, crashing applications on hardened allocators.
CVE-2026-112274: libtins through 4.6 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::soa_record::init that allows remote attackers to read past buffer bounds by supplying SOA data lacking NUL terminators. Attackers can feed raw SOA RDATA without a zero byte to applications using the buffer constructor, causing strlen to overrun the heap buffer and possibly crash.

Created: 2026-10-20 Last update: 2026-10-20 05:00

2 security issues in sid high

There are 2 open security issues in sid.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-112273: libtins through 4.6 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::compose_name in src/dns.cpp that allows remote attackers to read past the packet buffer by sending a label ending exactly at the packet end. Attackers can deliver crafted DNS packets whose additional, answer, or authority records trigger a one-byte read when parsed, crashing applications on hardened allocators.
CVE-2026-112274: libtins through 4.6 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::soa_record::init that allows remote attackers to read past buffer bounds by supplying SOA data lacking NUL terminators. Attackers can feed raw SOA RDATA without a zero byte to applications using the buffer constructor, causing strlen to overrun the heap buffer and possibly crash.

Created: 2026-10-20 Last update: 2026-10-20 05:00

2 security issues in forky high

There are 2 open security issues in forky.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-112273: libtins through 4.6 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::compose_name in src/dns.cpp that allows remote attackers to read past the packet buffer by sending a label ending exactly at the packet end. Attackers can deliver crafted DNS packets whose additional, answer, or authority records trigger a one-byte read when parsed, crashing applications on hardened allocators.
CVE-2026-112274: libtins through 4.6 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::soa_record::init that allows remote attackers to read past buffer bounds by supplying SOA data lacking NUL terminators. Attackers can feed raw SOA RDATA without a zero byte to applications using the buffer constructor, causing strlen to overrun the heap buffer and possibly crash.

Created: 2026-10-20 Last update: 2026-10-20 05:00

2 security issues in bookworm high

There are 2 open security issues in bookworm.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-112273: libtins through 4.6 contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::compose_name in src/dns.cpp that allows remote attackers to read past the packet buffer by sending a label ending exactly at the packet end. Attackers can deliver crafted DNS packets whose additional, answer, or authority records trigger a one-byte read when parsed, crashing applications on hardened allocators.
CVE-2026-112274: libtins through 4.6 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in DNS::soa_record::init that allows remote attackers to read past buffer bounds by supplying SOA data lacking NUL terminators. Attackers can feed raw SOA RDATA without a zero byte to applications using the buffer constructor, causing strlen to overrun the heap buffer and possibly crash.

Created: 2026-10-20 Last update: 2026-10-20 05:00

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 4.5-1.1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2025-12-05 Last update: 2025-12-05 16:32

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 4.2.1).

Created: 2018-12-23 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-openssl transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.

news

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[2025-12-11] libtins 4.5-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-05] Accepted libtins 4.5-1.1 (source) into unstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2024-02-21] libtins 4.5-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-15] Accepted libtins 4.5-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Federico Ceratto)
[2023-08-24] libtins REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-29] libtins 4.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-24] Accepted libtins 4.0-1 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable (Federico Ceratto)
[2016-06-22] libtins 3.4-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-06-16] Accepted libtins 3.4-2 (source amd64) into unstable (Federico Ceratto)
[2016-06-13] libtins 3.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-06-07] Accepted libtins 3.4-1 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable (Federico Ceratto)
[2015-02-26] Removed 2.0-1 from unstable
[2014-02-25] libtins 2.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2014-02-14] Accepted libtins 2.0-1 (source amd64) (Raúl Benencia) (signed by: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer)
[2013-07-19] libtins 1.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-07-09] Accepted libtins 1.1-1 (source amd64) (Raúl Benencia) (signed by: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer)
[2013-05-05] libtins 0.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-04-07] Accepted libtins 0.3-1 (source amd64) (Raúl Benencia) (signed by: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 0

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