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Debian 9: DLA-2675-1 Moderate: Caribou Regression Due To Xorg Fix

debian lts
Calendar Grey June 3, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Responding to a decline in caribou populations due to the patch for CVE-2020-25712 in Debian LTS. Upgrade advised.
It was found that the fix for CVE-2020-25712 in the Xorg X server, addressed in DLA-2486-1, caused a regression in caribou, making it crash whenever special (shifted) characters we...
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Summary

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version
0.4.21-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your caribou packages.

For the detailed security status of caribou please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/caribou

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


Package: caribou
Version: 0.4.21-1+deb9u1
Debian Bug: 980061

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