netsurf - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: netsurf (main)
version: 3.11-3
maintainer: Vincent Sanders (DMD)
uploaders: Alex Myczko [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 3.10-1
oldstable: 3.10-1
stable: 3.11-2
testing: 3.11-2
unstable: 3.11-3

versioned links

3.10-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.11-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.11-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

netsurf-common (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
netsurf-fb (3 bugs: 0, 3, 0, 0)
netsurf-gtk (2 bugs: 0, 1, 1, 0)

action needed

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
  http://download.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf/releases/source-full/ failed: 500 Can't connect to download.netsurf-browser.org:443

Created: 2025-12-03 Last update: 2025-12-04 13:00

3 security issues in sid high

There are 3 open security issues in sid.

3 important issues:

CVE-2024-51317: An issue in NetSurf v.3.11 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the dom_node_normalize function
CVE-2025-29699: NetSurf 3.11 is vulnerable to Use After Free in dom_node_set_text_content function.
CVE-2025-45663: An issue in NetSurf v3.11 causes the application to read uninitialized heap memory when creating a dom_event structure.

Created: 2025-11-01 Last update: 2025-12-03 19:00

3 security issues in forky high

There are 3 open security issues in forky.

3 important issues:

CVE-2024-51317: An issue in NetSurf v.3.11 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the dom_node_normalize function
CVE-2025-29699: NetSurf 3.11 is vulnerable to Use After Free in dom_node_set_text_content function.
CVE-2025-45663: An issue in NetSurf v3.11 causes the application to read uninitialized heap memory when creating a dom_event structure.

Created: 2025-11-01 Last update: 2025-12-03 19:00

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Either you need to push your commits and/or your tags, or the information about the package's VCS are out of date.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: 2025-12-03 Last update: 2025-12-03 16:31

3 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 3 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-12-04 13:31

Multiarch hinter reports 1 issue(s) normal

There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package.

netsurf-common could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign

Created: 2016-09-14 Last update: 2025-12-04 10:32

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: 2024-01-12 Last update: 2025-12-04 09:31

lintian reports 6 warnings normal

Lintian reports 6 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-12-03 Last update: 2025-12-03 22:31

3 open merge requests in Salsa normal

There are 3 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-08-19 Last update: 2025-08-19 06:28

AppStream hints: 1 warning normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

netsurf-gtk: 1 warning

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

Created: 2020-06-01 Last update: 2020-06-01 01:13

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 3.11-3 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: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-12-03 19:00

3 low-priority security issues in trixie low

There are 3 open security issues in trixie.

3 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2024-51317: (needs triaging) An issue in NetSurf v.3.11 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the dom_node_normalize function
CVE-2025-29699: (needs triaging) NetSurf 3.11 is vulnerable to Use After Free in dom_node_set_text_content function.
CVE-2025-45663: (needs triaging) An issue in NetSurf v3.11 causes the application to read uninitialized heap memory when creating a dom_event structure.

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

Created: 2025-11-01 Last update: 2025-12-03 19:00

3 low-priority security issues in bookworm low

There are 3 open security issues in bookworm.

3 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2024-51317: (needs triaging) An issue in NetSurf v.3.11 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the dom_node_normalize function
CVE-2025-29699: (needs triaging) NetSurf 3.11 is vulnerable to Use After Free in dom_node_set_text_content function.
CVE-2025-45663: (needs triaging) An issue in NetSurf v3.11 causes the application to read uninitialized heap memory when creating a dom_event structure.

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

Created: 2025-11-01 Last update: 2025-12-03 19:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-12-03 20:00

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for netsurf (3.11-2 to 3.11-3): BLOCKED: Maybe temporary, maybe blocked but Britney is missing information (check below)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Missing build on riscv64
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest deferred on riscv64: missing arch:riscv64 build
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dbus-glib/0.114-2: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gtkmm2.4/1:2.24.5-6: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libwwwbrowser-perl/2.23-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for nghttp2/1.64.0-1.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pysatellites/2.7-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Lintian check waiting for test results on riscv64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 1 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/n/netsurf.html
- ∙ ∙ Waiting for reproducibility test results on arm64 - info ♻
- Not considered

news

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[2025-12-03] Accepted netsurf 3.11-3 (source) into unstable (Alex Myczko)
[2024-07-20] netsurf 3.11-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-15] Accepted netsurf 3.11-2 (source) into unstable (Alex Myczko) (signed by: GÃ¼rkan Myczko)
[2024-01-08] netsurf 3.11-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-03] Accepted netsurf 3.11-1 (source) into unstable (Gürkan Myczko) (signed by: GÃ¼rkan Myczko)
[2023-09-07] netsurf 3.10-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-02] Accepted netsurf 3.10-3.1 (source) into unstable (Charles Plessy)
[2023-06-22] netsurf 3.10-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-06-14] Accepted netsurf 3.10-3 (source) into unstable (Gürkan Myczko) (signed by: GÃ¼rkan Myczko)
[2023-03-31] Accepted netsurf 3.10-2 (source) into experimental (Gürkan Myczko) (signed by: GÃ¼rkan Myczko)
[2020-06-01] netsurf 3.10-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-26] Accepted netsurf 3.10-1 (source) into unstable (Gürkan Myczko) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2020-05-26] netsurf 3.9-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-15] Accepted netsurf 3.9-1 (source) into unstable (Gürkan Myczko) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2018-07-20] Accepted netsurf 3.6-3.2 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2017-08-08] netsurf REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-02-13] netsurf 3.6-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-02-10] Accepted netsurf 3.6-3.1 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2016-12-03] netsurf 3.6-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-11-27] Accepted netsurf 3.6-3 (source all amd64) into unstable (Vincent Sanders)
[2016-11-25] Accepted netsurf 3.6-2 (source all amd64) into unstable (Vincent Sanders)
[2016-11-20] Accepted netsurf 3.6-1 (source all amd64) into unstable (Vincent Sanders)
[2016-07-16] Accepted netsurf 3.2+dfsg-3 (source all amd64) into unstable (Vincent Sanders)
[2016-04-10] Accepted netsurf 3.2+dfsg-2.3 (source) into unstable (Tobias Frost)
[2016-02-07] netsurf REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2015-07-12] netsurf 3.2+dfsg-2.2 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-07-11] netsurf REMOVED from testing (Britney)
[2015-06-08] netsurf 3.2+dfsg-2.2 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-06-02] Accepted netsurf 3.2+dfsg-2.2 (source all amd64) into unstable (Peter Michael Green)
[2015-06-02] netsurf REMOVED from testing (Britney)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 13
RC: 0
I&N: 10
M&W: 3
F&P: 0
patch: 3

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