avahi - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: avahi (main)
version: 0.8-6
maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Loic Minier [DMD] – Michael Biebl [DMD] – Sebastian Dröge [DMD] – Sjoerd Simons [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.6.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.6.32-2
o-o-sec: 0.6.32-2+deb9u1
oldstable: 0.7-4+deb10u1
stable: 0.8-5+deb11u1
testing: 0.8-6
unstable: 0.8-6

versioned links

0.6.32-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.6.32-2+deb9u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.7-4+deb10u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.8-5+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.8-6: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

avahi-autoipd (6 bugs: 0, 4, 2, 0)
avahi-daemon (46 bugs: 0, 36, 10, 0)
avahi-discover
avahi-dnsconfd
avahi-ui-utils (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
avahi-utils (3 bugs: 0, 3, 0, 0)
gir1.2-avahi-0.6
libavahi-client-dev
libavahi-client3
libavahi-common-data
libavahi-common-dev
libavahi-common3
libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
libavahi-core-dev
libavahi-core7
libavahi-glib-dev
libavahi-glib1
libavahi-gobject-dev
libavahi-gobject0
libavahi-ui-gtk3-0
libavahi-ui-gtk3-dev
python3-avahi

action needed

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In debian/watch no matching files for watch line
  https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/releases/ .*/avahi-([\d\.]+)\.tar\.gz

Created: 2022-09-17 Last update: 2022-12-04 11:44

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-3468: A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.

Created: 2022-07-04 Last update: 2022-09-10 14:30

1 security issue in bookworm high

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-3468: A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.

Created: 2022-07-04 Last update: 2022-09-10 14:30

lintian reports 18 warnings high

Lintian reports 18 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2021-04-11 Last update: 2022-07-30 12:12

Does not build reproducibly during testing normal

A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!

Created: 2022-06-11 Last update: 2022-12-04 11:50

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2022-07-27 Last update: 2022-12-04 11:31

1 new commit since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit 50d86df4bd2c8b3033f80812938689ba81be8932
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed Feb 2 20:39:00 2022 +0000

    Remove constraints unnecessary since buster
    
    * Build-Depends: Drop versioned constraint on intltool, libcap-dev, libdaemon-dev, libdbus-1-dev and libglib2.0-dev.
    * avahi-daemon: Drop versioned constraint on libnss-mdns in Recommends.
    * libavahi-client-dev: Drop versioned constraint on libdbus-1-dev in Depends.
    * libavahi-compat-libdnssd1: Drop versioned constraint on libnss-mdns in Recommends.
    * Remove 3 maintscript entries from 2 files.
    
    Changes-By: deb-scrub-obsolete

Created: 2022-01-30 Last update: 2022-11-27 23:07

AppStream hints: 3 warnings normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

avahi-discover: 1 warning
avahi-ui-utils: 2 warnings

You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.

Created: 2020-06-01 Last update: 2022-06-06 08:33

1 low-priority security issue in bullseye low

There is 1 open security issue in bullseye.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2021-3468: (needs triaging) A flaw was found in avahi in versions 0.6 up to 0.8. The event used to signal the termination of the client connection on the avahi Unix socket is not correctly handled in the client_work function, allowing a local attacker to trigger an infinite loop. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the availability of the avahi service, which becomes unresponsive after this flaw is triggered.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2022-07-04 Last update: 2022-09-10 14:30

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.6.1 instead of 4.6.0).

Created: 2020-11-17 Last update: 2022-06-06 02:40

news

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[2022-08-28] Accepted avahi 0.8-5+deb11u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters)
[2022-06-11] avahi 0.8-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-06-07] Accepted avahi 0.6.32-2+deb9u1 (source) into oldoldstable (Markus Koschany)
[2022-06-05] Accepted avahi 0.8-6 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2021-03-08] Accepted avahi 0.7-4+deb10u1 (source amd64 all) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Sjoerd Simons)
[2021-02-12] avahi 0.8-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-06] Accepted avahi 0.8-5 (source) into unstable (Sjoerd Simons)
[2021-02-05] Accepted avahi 0.8-4 (source) into unstable (Sjoerd Simons)
[2020-05-31] avahi 0.8-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-26] Accepted avahi 0.8-3 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2020-05-25] Accepted avahi 0.8-2 (all amd64 i386 source) into experimental, experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Simon McVittie)
[2020-05-13] avahi 0.8-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-07] Accepted avahi 0.8-1 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2019-12-19] avahi 0.7-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-12-13] Accepted avahi 0.7-5 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2018-05-03] avahi 0.7-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-27] Accepted avahi 0.7-4 (source) into unstable (Simon McVittie)
[2018-02-16] avahi 0.7-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-02-02] Accepted avahi 0.7-3.1 (source) into unstable (Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2017-09-24] avahi 0.7-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-09-18] Accepted avahi 0.7-3 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2017-09-18] Accepted avahi 0.7-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable, unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2017-09-17] Accepted avahi 0.7-1 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2017-02-03] avahi 0.6.32-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-01-23] Accepted avahi 0.6.32-2 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2016-07-03] avahi 0.6.32-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-06-27] Accepted avahi 0.6.32-1 (source) into unstable (Michael Biebl)
[2015-11-10] avahi 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-11-04] Accepted avahi 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
[2015-04-18] avahi 0.6.31-5 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 57 59
RC: 0
I&N: 46
M&W: 11 13
F&P: 0
patch: 1

links

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lintian (0, 18)
buildd: logs, reproducibility, cross
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ubuntu

[Information about Ubuntu for Debian Developers]

version: 0.8-6ubuntu1
155 bugs (5 patches)
patches for 0.8-6ubuntu1