telegram-desktop - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: telegram-desktop (main)
version: 5.7.2+ds-4
maintainer: Nicholas Guriev (DMD) (DM)
arch: amd64 arm64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64 mips64el ppc64el sh4 x32
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 3.1.1+ds-1~deb11u2
oldstable: 4.6.5+ds-2
testing: 5.7.2+ds-4
unstable: 5.7.2+ds-4

versioned links

3.1.1+ds-1~deb11u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.6.5+ds-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.7.2+ds-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

telegram-desktop (45 bugs: 0, 35, 10, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 6.4.2 high

A new upstream version 6.4.2 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-01-02 Last update: 2026-01-27 09:13

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-47793: Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending an oversized message payload. Attackers can generate a 9 million byte buffer and paste it into the messaging interface to trigger an application crash.

Created: 2026-01-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 22:47

1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-47793: Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending an oversized message payload. Attackers can generate a 9 million byte buffer and paste it into the messaging interface to trigger an application crash.

Created: 2026-01-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 22:47

1 security issue in bullseye high

There is 1 open security issue in bullseye.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-47793: Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending an oversized message payload. Attackers can generate a 9 million byte buffer and paste it into the messaging interface to trigger an application crash.

Created: 2026-01-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 22:47

1 security issue in bookworm high

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-47793: Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending an oversized message payload. Attackers can generate a 9 million byte buffer and paste it into the messaging interface to trigger an application crash.

Created: 2026-01-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 22:47

Fails to build during reproducibility 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: 2025-12-14 Last update: 2026-01-27 08:01

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

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

Created: 2025-08-05 Last update: 2026-01-25 06:00

RFS: A sponsor is needed to update this package. normal

A Debian contributor is looking for a sponsor to upload a package update. It might be the regular maintainer who does not have any upload right yet, or it might be someone who just wants to help for a bugfix or a new upstream version. In any case, if you have upload rights and care about this package and Debian in general, you should look into sponsoring this update. Please see bug number #1123927 for more information.

Created: 2025-12-24 Last update: 2025-12-24 11:01

lintian reports 1 warning normal

Lintian reports 1 warning 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

debian/patches: 13 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 19 debian patches available in version 5.7.2+ds-4 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

13 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.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-12-18 10:17

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.6.2).

Created: 2024-04-07 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-abseil transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.

news

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[2025-12-23] telegram-desktop 5.7.2+ds-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-17] Accepted telegram-desktop 5.7.2+ds-4 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2025-12-14] Accepted telegram-desktop 5.7.2+ds-3 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2025-12-14] telegram-desktop 5.7.2+ds-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-03] Accepted telegram-desktop 5.7.2+ds-2 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2025-01-23] telegram-desktop REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-22] telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-19] telegram-desktop REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-03] telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-25] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1.1 (source) into unstable (Andrey Rakhmatullin) (signed by: Andrey Rahmatullin)
[2024-08-25] telegram-desktop REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-05-31] telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-21] telegram-desktop REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-15] telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-12] telegram-desktop REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-27] telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-21] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.14.9+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2024-01-19] telegram-desktop 4.14.4+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-14] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.14.4+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2024-01-13] telegram-desktop 4.14.3+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-08] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.14.3+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2024-01-03] telegram-desktop 4.13.1+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-12-28] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.13.1+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2023-11-25] telegram-desktop 4.11.8+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-11-20] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.11.8+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2023-11-08] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.11.5+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2023-11-05] telegram-desktop 4.10.3+ds-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-10-22] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.10.3+ds-2 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)
[2023-10-11] telegram-desktop 4.10.3+ds-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-10-03] Accepted telegram-desktop 4.10.3+ds-1 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 43 45
RC: 0
I&N: 33 35
M&W: 10
F&P: 0
patch: 1

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