Remove “gnome-mplayer”, “gecko-mediaplayer” and “gmtk” are unsecured/abandonware packages(released in 2014)
“gecko-mediaplayer” uses deprecated/unsecured NPAPI[0] and XULRunner[1][2] apis

$ pacman -Si gnome-mplayer
Repository : community
Name : gnome-mplayer
Version : 1.0.9-4
Description : A simple MPlayer GUI.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer Licenses : GPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : mplayer dbus-glib libnotify gmtk
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 343.29 KiB
Installed Size : 1461.00 KiB
Packager : Balló György <ballogyor+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date : Sun 22 Jan 2017 04:45:38 PM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

$ pacman -Si gecko-mediaplayer
Repository : community
Name : gecko-mediaplayer
Version : 1.0.9-3
Description : Browser plugin that uses gnome-mplayer to play media in a web browser.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gecko-mediaplayer Licenses : GPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gnome-mplayer>=1.0.9 dbus-glib gmtk curl
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 80.92 KiB
Installed Size : 598.00 KiB
Packager : Balló György <ballogyor+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date : Sun 22 Jan 2017 04:36:31 PM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

$ pacman -Si gmtk
Repository : community
Name : gmtk
Version : 1.0.9-3
Description : Common functions for gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gmtk Licenses : GPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glib2 gtk3 dconf
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 73.85 KiB
Installed Size : 246.00 KiB
Packager : Balló György <ballogyor+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date : Sun 22 Jan 2017 04:50:49 PM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

[0]:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap [1]:https://hearsum.ca/blog/mozilla-will-stop-producing-automated-builds-of-xulrunner-after-the-410-cycle.html [2]:https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xulrunner

Remove “libFreeWRLplugin.so”, uses deprecated/unsecure NPAPI[0] and XULRunner[1][2] apis

$ pacman -Si freewrl
Repository : community
Name : freewrl
Version : 1:2.3.3-1
Description : VRML viewer
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/ Licenses : GPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : java-runtime libxaw glew freeglut curl freetype2 imlib2 sox unzip imagemagick libxml2 ttf-bitstream-vera lesstif js185 glu openal

                freealut

Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 583.49 KiB
Installed Size : 2060.00 KiB
Packager : Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date : Mon 19 Dec 2016 10:31:49 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

$ sudo pacman -Ql freewrl
freewrl /usr/
freewrl /usr/bin/
freewrl /usr/bin/freewrl
freewrl /usr/bin/freewrl_msg
freewrl /usr/bin/freewrl_snd
freewrl /usr/include/
freewrl /usr/include/FreeWRLEAI/
freewrl /usr/include/FreeWRLEAI/EAIHeaders.h
freewrl /usr/include/FreeWRLEAI/EAI_C.h
freewrl /usr/include/FreeWRLEAI/GeneratedHeaders.h
freewrl /usr/include/FreeWRLEAI/X3DNode.h
freewrl /usr/include/libFreeWRL.h
freewrl /usr/lib/
freewrl /usr/lib/libFreeWRL.so
freewrl /usr/lib/libFreeWRL.so.2
freewrl /usr/lib/libFreeWRL.so.2.3.3
freewrl /usr/lib/libFreeWRLEAI.so
freewrl /usr/lib/libFreeWRLEAI.so.2
freewrl /usr/lib/libFreeWRLEAI.so.2.3.3
freewrl /usr/lib/mozilla/
freewrl /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
freewrl /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libFreeWRLplugin.so
freewrl /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
freewrl /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libFreeWRL.pc
freewrl /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libFreeWRLEAI.pc
freewrl /usr/share/
freewrl /usr/share/applications/
freewrl /usr/share/applications/freewrl.desktop
freewrl /usr/share/man/
freewrl /usr/share/man/man1/
freewrl /usr/share/man/man1/freewrl.1.gz
freewrl /usr/share/pixmaps/
freewrl /usr/share/pixmaps/freewrl.png

[0]:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap [1]:https://hearsum.ca/blog/mozilla-will-stop-producing-automated-builds-of-xulrunner-after-the-410-cycle.html [2]:https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xulrunner

Remove “xulrunner”[0][1] is unsecure/abandonware package

$ pacman -Si xulrunner
Repository : community
Name : xulrunner
Version : 41.0.2-10
Description : Mozilla Runtime Environment
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner Licenses : MPL GPL LGPL Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gtk2 mozilla-common nss>3.18 libxt hunspell startup-notification mime-types dbus-glib libpulse libevent libvpx icu python2
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : xulrunner-oss
Download Size : 47.38 MiB
Installed Size : 171.99 MiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras evangelos@foutrelis.com Build Date : Wed 26 Apr 2017 03:10:07 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

[0]:https://hearsum.ca/blog/mozilla-will-stop-producing-automated-builds-of-xulrunner-after-the-410-cycle.html [1]:https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xulrunner

$ pacman -Si cmake-fedora
Repository : community
Name : cmake-fedora
Version : 2.7.1-3
Description : CMake helper modules for fedora developers
Architecture : any
URL : https://pagure.io/cmake-fedora Licenses : custom:BSD
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : cmake
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 90.94 KiB
Installed Size : 422.00 KiB
Packager : Felix Yan felixonmars@archlinux.org Build Date : Mon 17 Apr 2017 06:39:49 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

Cataclysm-DDA contains a problematic license[0][1][2] for software.
Uses “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”.

$ pacman -Si cataclysm-dda
Repository : community
Name : cataclysm-dda
Version : 0.C-3
Description : A post-apocalyptic roguelike.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ Licenses : CCPL:by-sa
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : ncurses lua
Optional Deps : sdl2_image: for tiles

                sdl2_ttf: for tiles
                freetype2: for tiles
                sdl2_mixer: for tiles

Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 19.33 MiB
Installed Size : 53.32 MiB
Packager : Felix Yan felixonmars@archlinux.org Build Date : Mon 07 Dec 2015 03:14:02 AM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

[0]:https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/master/LICENSE.txt [1]:https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software [2]:https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ccbysa

The developer team is discussing the removal of Midori from Debian repositories.

Jeremy Bicha says:

> The final stable release of Midori still uses the unmaintained WebKit1
> instead of webkit2gtk and therefore the browser suffers from numerous
> known security vulnerabilities. Midori now fails to build with vala
> 0.36 which is in Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha and will be in Debian unstable
> once it clears the Debian new queue.
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1698483 .

See a complete discussion here.

w3m is an unmaintained and unsuportable software, the latest release was 0.5.3 (2011)[0][1][2][3]

$ pacman -Qi w3m
Name : w3m
Version : 0.5.3.git20170102-2
Description : Text-based Web browser, as well as pager
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : openssl gc ncurses gpm
Optional Deps : imlib2: for graphics support [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 1784.00 KiB
Packager : Jan de Groot jgc@archlinux.org Build Date : Sat 04 Mar 2017 07:12:38 PM -03
Install Date : Tue 12 Sep 2017 03:43:25 AM -03
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

[0]:https://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m/files/w3m/ [1]:https://security.archlinux.org/package/w3m [2]:https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m [3]:https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/w3m

pam_unix2 was removed from Debian Jessie because it’s buggy and unmaintained [0]

It’s included inside pam package and should be removed since it doesn’t comes from official source. Also the original upstream FTP directory (ftp://ftp.suse.com/people/kukuk/pam/pam_unix2) has disappeared.

[0]:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628848

$ pacman -Si pam
Repository : core
Name : pam
Version : 1.3.0-1
Description : PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) library
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://linux-pam.org Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glibc cracklib libtirpc pambase
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 609.71 KiB
Installed Size : 2980.00 KiB
Packager : Tobias Powalowski tpowa@archlinux.org Build Date : Thu 09 Jun 2016 02:44:03 PM -03
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

$ pacman -Ql pam > pam_fileslist.txt

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/

https://w1.fi/security/2017-1/

Arch just patched: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/wpa_supplicant/

Please replace by avideo, preferably by a release which receives updates so that it can still function within kodi (the non-LTS version).

Replace by LTS version of avideo to follow Hyperbola Packaging Guidelines.

Please move dillo to blacklist. Please enable IPv6, SSL/TLS and threaded DNS support.

1- Arch PKGBUILD problems:

 a- not obtain source via https
 b- not compiled with support --enable-ipv6 --enable-threaded-dns --enable-ssl 

My correction is committed in NAB-packages-community

Libreoffice contains Google API keys which affects privacy.

The aarch64-linux-gnu-linux-api-headers from [community] is compiled using the blobbed Linux kernel sources[0], and in Parabola it has been replaced with aarch64-linux-gnu-linux-libre-api-headers[1].
This issue is exactly the same as linux-api-headers, so it should be blacklisted and replaced using the Linux-libre source.

[0] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/aarch64-linux-gnu-linux-api-headers/trunk/PKGBUILD

[1]https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/commit/?id=acaa4ba9c0bc77deb6b77e4dad815f66c673d662

The aarch64-linux-gnu-linux-api-headers package from [community] compiles using the blobbed Linux kernel source[0], at Parabola it has been replaced with aarch64-linux-gnu-linux-libre-api-headers[1], since this issue is exactly the same as with linux-api-headers.

The solution is to simply compile using Linux-libre sources.

[0] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/plain/aarch64-linux-gnu-linux-api-headers/trunk/PKGBUILD

[1] https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/commit/?id=acaa4ba9c0bc77deb6b77e4dad815f66c673d662

Multiple CVEs. Unprivileged programs can gain access to a hardware bug in the CPU, and thereby initiate memory dumps and other low-level attacks.

LibreSSL is a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes.

It was forked from the OpenSSL in April 2014 as a response by OpenBSD developers to the Heartbleed security vulnerability in OpenSSL, [4] [5] [6] [7] with the aim of refactoring the OpenSSL code so as to provide a more secure implementation. [8]

As LibreSSL follow the same goals than Hyperbola Packaging Guidelines in stability and security concerns, it should be the default provider of SSL and TLS protocols for Hyperbola Project.

Avahi is a zero-configuration networking implementation that contains critical security issues because mDNS operates under a different trust model than unicast DNS trusting the entire network rather than a designated DNS server, it is vulnerable to spoofing attacks by any system within the multicast IP range. Like SNMP and many other network management protocols, it can also be used by attackers to quickly gain detailed knowledge of the network and its machines. [0]

Since it violates the Hyperbola Social Contract , Avahi should be blacklisted.

Our current version is vulnerable

Multiple vulnerabilities have been located in Irssi.

Access remote: yes

References links:

• https://irssi.org/security/irssi_sa_2018_02.txt

This morning while I was working on my X200, I noticed that my CPU was kept 100% busy for a long time by some process which was obvioulsy eating up the battery life. The culprit was pacman-key, triggered by logrotate.

To stop this, I did ‘chmod -x /etc/cron.daily/pacman-key’ and I rebooted.

Later on, it was impossible to install a new package as it was impossible to get over the step marked as “checking keys in keyring...”

So I tried to do again ‘pacman-key –refresh-keys’: the overall process took more than an hour—behind a fast and robust internet connection. I finally got three lines, saying that about 1,000 keys were updated but I never got the prompt back. So I hit Ctrl-C.

At the time of writing, I am still trying to refresh the keys—a quite desperate attempt, if I may say so.

Although I tagged this report as a “Feature request”, it is in my opinion of quite some importance. I understand very well the absolute necessity to always have the keys updated, but in this particular case, with so many keys and so frequent updates, I begin to wonder if losses are not beginning to prevail over benefits.

Unless I am doing something wrong or missing something I should do?

Any help would be strongly appreciated.

Robert

Python 2.7.14 is vulnerable to a Heap-Buffer-Overflow as well as a Heap-Use-After-Free. Python versions prior to 2.7.14 may also be vulnerable and it appears that Python 2.7.17 and prior may also be vulnerable however this has not been confirmed. The vulnerability lies when multiply threads are handling large amounts of data. In both cases there is essentially a race condition that occurs. For the Heap-Buffer-Overflow, Thread 2 is creating the size for a buffer, but Thread1 is already writing to the buffer without knowing how much to write. So when a large amount of data is being processed, it is very easy to cause memory corruption using a Heap-Buffer-Overflow. As for the Use-After-Free, Thread3→Malloc→Thread1→Free’s→Thread2-Re-uses-Free’d Memory. The PSRT has stated that this is not a security vulnerability due to the fact that the attacker must be able to run code, however in some situations, such as function as a service, this vulnerability can potentially be used by an attacker to violate a trust boundary, as such the DWF feels this issue deserves a CVE.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000030

/etc/init.d/net-online
-----
Line #62
ping_test_host="${ping_test_host:-google.com}"
_____
/etc/conf.d/net-online
-----
# The default is google.com.

Summary

$ pacman -Si mupdf
Repositorio               : community
Nombre                    : mupdf
Versión                   : 1.11-1
Descripción               : Lightweight PDF and XPS viewer
Arquitectura              : x86_64
URL                       : http://mupdf.com
Licencias                 : AGPL3
Grupos                    : Nada
Provee                    : Nada
Depende de                : curl  desktop-file-utils  freetype2  harfbuzz  jbig2dec  libjpeg  openjpeg2  openssl
Dependencias opcionales   : Nada
En conflicto con          : Nada
Remplaza a                : Nada
Tamaño de la descarga     : 18,18 MiB
Tamaño de la instalación  : 33,03 MiB
Encargado                 : Christian Hesse <arch@eworm.de>
Fecha de creación         : mar 11 abr 2017 05:22:41 -05
Validado por              : Suma MD5  Suma SHA-256  Firma

Since DNSCrypt-Proxy project has been abandoned [0] , DNSCrypt-Proxy 2 [1] should be used as its source replacement, however DNSCrypt-Proxy 2 contains support for unsafe and dangerous for privacy protocols such as Google. [2] [3] [4] Also, it contains Google recommendation and support through its parental control servers and public resolvers lists [5] [6]

Therefore DNSCrypt-Proxy 2 requires be re-forked by us first to follow our social contract.

Geth 1.6.x contains possible denial of service attacks “DoS Attack”, however it has been solved in 1.7.2 [0] instead. Since 1.6.x needs many modifications spread across multiple files of the code and it is inefficient to be backported, the newer version (eg. 1.7.x) could replace the current version package as exception, but repackaged with the appropriate suffix “-backports”.