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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #136

Published: Dec 5, 2017.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday, November 26 and Saturday, December 2, 2017:

Media coverage

Arch Linux imap key leakage

A security issue was found in the imap package in Arch Linux thanks to the reproducible builds effort in that distribution.

Due to a hardcoded key-generation routine in the build() step of imap’s PKGBUILD (the standard packaging file for Arch Linux packages), a default secret key was generated and leaked on all imap installations. This was prompty reviewed, confirmed and fixed by the package maintainers.

This mirrors similar security issues found in Debian, such as #833885.

Debian packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

In addition, 73 FTBFS bugs were detected and reported by Adrian Bunk.

Reviews of unreproducible Debian packages

83 package reviews have been added, 41 have been updated and 33 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

1 issue type was updated:

LEDE / OpenWrt packages updates:

diffoscope development

reprotest development

Version 0.7.4 was uploaded to unstable by Ximin Luo. It included contributions already covered by posts of the previous weeks as well as new ones from:

reproducible-website development

tests.reproducible-builds.org

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Alexander Couzens, Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen, Santiago Torres-Arias, Vagrant Cascadian & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.


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