Marked for autoremoval on 02 February: #917758high
Version 2.6.1-3 of jabberd2 is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sat 02 Feb 2019. It is affected by #917758. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.
CVE-2017-18226: The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.
CVE-2017-18226: The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.
CVE-2017-18226: The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/jabber/filename.pid`" command.
Please fix it.
Standards version of the package is outdated.
wishlist
The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
(Standards-Version 4.3.0 instead of
4.1.3).
![[bug history graph]](https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/j/jabberd2.png){kind=link}