From 2e058c1605387456f2f287ccf6520c66613bd6f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Salvatore Bonaccorso Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 07:12:14 +0000 Subject: Add paragraph about end-of-life packages git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@22537 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42 --- doc/narrative_introduction | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/narrative_introduction') diff --git a/doc/narrative_introduction b/doc/narrative_introduction index de7f188b64..4731725856 100644 --- a/doc/narrative_introduction +++ b/doc/narrative_introduction @@ -361,6 +361,22 @@ high : A typical, exploitable security problem, which you'll really Certain packages may get higher or lower rating than usual, based on their importance. +end-of-life packages +-------------------- + +In some rare cases (i.e. webprowsers) security support for some packages +needed to be stopped before the end of the regular security maintenance +life cycle. + +Packages which are not anymore supported by the security team in a +(old-stable release are marked with the end-of-life tag: + +CVE-2011-3973 (cavsdec.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.7.4 and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 ...) + {DSA-2336-1} + - libav 4:0.7.1-7 (bug #641478) + - ffmpeg + - ffmpeg-debian + NOTE and TODO entries --------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3