There are 4 open security issues in bullseye.
commit 590c16ae83ac95eba51663d6080779446dd8e109
Merge: b7cfe87 fbd199a
Author: Victor Seva <vseva@debian.org>
Date: Mon May 11 12:24:42 2026 +0200
Merge branch 'sysusers' into 'debian/master'
Install and use sysusers.d/tmpfiles.d config files
See merge request xmpp-team/prosody!1
commit fbd199ae4074ec844a5edb8dc04ac54a5b1d54ff
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Sat May 2 16:14:10 2026 +0100
Drop obsolete workarounds
These workarounds were added in version 0.8.2-2 which is 14 years
old, and are no longer necessary since Wheezy (debian 7), so drop
them
commit f50a61a638907326a810305c26b680cd29f00659
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Sat May 2 16:11:23 2026 +0100
Install and use sysusers.d/tmpfiles.d config files
sysusers.d/tmpfiles.d config files allow a package to use
declarative configuration instead of manually written
maintainer scripts. This also allows image-based systems to
be created with /usr/ only, and also allows for factory
resetting a system and recreating /etc/ on boot.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html
commit 6015a392777d3aca4934cc7878cde50428b97103
Author: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Sat May 2 16:10:11 2026 +0100
Stop deleting system user on remove/purge
This is widely considered bad practice, as the kernel recycles
UIDs/GIDs. So any potential leftover file/directory can then
become owned by the next user/group that gets added, with
unpredictable consequences.
Among the 3 debian patches available in version 13.0.5-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues: