[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#809757: jessie-pu: package openldap/2.4.40+dfsg-1+deb8u2

[Ryan Tandy]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: jessie
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

Dear SRM,

I would like to fix #806909 in jessie. It has been reported by different 
people upstream, in Ubuntu, and now in Debian as well, so the impact 
seems to be at least moderately widespread.

The fix originates upstream and has been in testing since July.

The patch changes a macro in a public header. I used codesearch.d.n to 
check the archive for possible users of the macro that would need to be 
rebuilt. The only packages I found actually using the libldap version of 
it are 389-ds-base and 389-dsgw, however these appear to not actually be 
affected, due to internal confusion in the API: they end up allocating 
enough memory to wrap text at 76 columns (actually 77, because of the 
bug), while actually wrapping it at 78, and this difference is enough to 
avoid any overflow according to my testing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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