Updated Debian 8: 8.5 released

June 4th, 2016

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian 8 (codename jessie ). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 8 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away old jessie CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.

New installation media and CD and DVD images containing updated packages will be available soon at the regular locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:

Miscellaneous Bugfixes

This stable update adds a few important corrections to the following packages:

Package Reason autofs Remove stray debugging output in log files bareos Fix GnuTLS backend initialization, TLS negotiation for passive filedaemons base-files Update for the point release chrony Fix CVE-2016-1567: Restrict authentication of server/peer to specified key; remove /var/lib/chrony on purge only; rework postrotate log rotation script clamav New upstream release cyrus-imapd-2.4 Drop broken caldav support debian-edu Add libdns-mdns to tasks/desktop-other and tasks/main-server to make CUPS browsing really functional; add avahi-discover, mdns-scan, avahi-autoipd and kdnssd to tasks/main-server as suggested packages debian-edu-config Backport various bug fixes debian-edu-doc Update wheezy and jessie documentation debian-edu-install Update version number to 8+edu0 debian-installer Rebuild against proposed-updates; add sata-modules for arm64 - some machines do have SATA CD debian-installer-netboot-images Rebuild against new debian-installer; swap the d-i Built-Using with the installer fetching, to fail on version mismatches earlier dpkg Add more Conflicts for removed packages expecting dpkg to ship install-info; remove trailing space before handling blank line dot-separator in Dpkg::Control::HashCore. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.25; only use the SHELL environment variable for interactive shells; move tar option --no-recursion before -T in dpkg-deb; initialize Config-Version also for packages previously in triggers-pending state; fix memory leak in dpkg infodb format upgrade logic; fix physical file offset comparison in dpkg; add kfreebsd-armhf support to ostable and triplettable; add NIOS2 support to cputable evince Fix crashes when document has pages removed and is reloaded, and when a recent document fails to load ext4magic Fix an issue which makes impossible to recover or examine Ext4 filesystems fusionforge Disable mediawiki plugin, as mediawiki is being removed gitolite3 Enable repository paths without '~/' in git-annex-shell glusterfs Add missing glusterd hook script to glusterfs-server package gosa Several bugfixes gpa Fix check of dialog return values groovy Fix remote execution of untrusted code and possible DoS vulnerability [CVE-2015-3253] hexchat Verify hostnames when ssl is in use hivex Fix ruby-hivex installation icedove Fix build failure on mips; fix build on arm{el,hf} icedtea-web New upstream release, fixes CVE-2015-5235 and CVE-2015-5234 initramfs-tools Include drivers/nvme in block driver modules; create ORDER files even if there are no valid scripts libcrypto++ Fix Rijndael timing attack counter measure [CVE-2016-3995] libdatetime-timezone-perl Update to tzdata 2016d libksba Do not abort on decoder stack overflow [CVE-2016-4353]; fix integer overflow in the BER decoder (CVE-2016-4354 CVE-2016-4355), encoding of invalid utf-8 strings in dn.c [CVE-2016-4356], OOB read access in _ksba_dn_to_str, possible read access beyond the buffer [CVE-2016-4579] libreoffice Fix build failure on ppc64el due to changes in OpenJDK; fix logic to not install sound files linux Revert some changes in 3.16.7-ckt25-1 which caused issues on some systems with Radeon graphics cards and when inserting a USB device lvm2 Set default pid directory to /run mathematica-fonts Update for new upstream file version (10); only TrueType fonts are now available; add missing dependency on wget nam Build-Depend on tcl / tk >= 8.6 ngspice Run lyx with a temporary -userdir to not rely on $HOME nlpsolver Add missing Depends: on libreoffice-java-common nmap Fix versioned breaks/replaces; deal with unuseable socks proxy; ignore unenumerable interfaces; move ndiff.py from zenmap to ndiff opam Fix insecure certificate handling openjdk-7 Fix build failure on arm{el,hf} openssl Update expired certificates used by test suite; update to 1.0.1t stable release; use alternate trust chains; use correct digest when exporting keying material; security fixes [CVE-2015-3197 CVE-2015-1793] pepperflashplugin-nonfree Update Google public key; remove 32 bit support perl Apply selected bug-fix patches taken from 5.20.3; fix debugperl crashes with XS modules; CVE-2015-8853 fix regexp engine hang on illegal UTF8 input; fix UTF8-related regexp engine crash postgresql-9.1 New upstream release postgresql-9.4 New upstream release quota Change invocation of quota services, so systemd takes over most of the work redmine Load all database drivers for all Redmine instances tklib Fixed typo in Plotchart version which prevented its loading tzdata New upstream release wmforecast Update for new Yahoo! weather API xapian-core Fix possible database corruption, especially with recoll xarchiver Fix crash when attempting to cancel extract here in Thunar plugin xscreensaver Remove warning about outdated version zendframework Fix regression from ZF2015-08: binary data corruption; fix ZF2016-01: Potential Insufficient Entropy Vulnerability in ZF1

Security Updates

This revision adds the following security updates to the stable release. The Security Team has already released an advisory for each of these updates:

Removed packages

The following packages were removed due to circumstances beyond our control:

Package Reason lyz Depends on to-be-removed zotero-standalone-build mediawiki No longer security supported mediawiki-math Depends on to-be-removed mediawiki zotero-standalone-build Unusable in jessie

Debian Installer

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The removal of mediawiki renders the "fusionforge-full" metapackage uninstallable in jessie. This issue was unfortunately not noticed in time to fix it as part of the point release, but will be resolved via jessie-updates soon.The installer has been updated to include the fixes incorporated into stable by the point release.

The complete lists of packages that have changed with this revision:

The current stable distribution:

Proposed updates to the stable distribution:

stable distribution information (release notes, errata etc.):

Security announcements and information:

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