vcswatch reports that
this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version
2:4.0.5-1, distribution
unstable) and new commits
in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make
an upload.
1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:
CVE-2023-4016:
(needs triaging)
Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.
debian/patches: 20 patches to forward upstream
low
Among the 23 debian patches
available in version 2:4.0.4-8 of the package,
we noticed the following issues:
20 patches
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.
Standards version of the package is outdated.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).
![[bug history graph]](https://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/p/procps.png){kind=link}