Henrique de Moraes Holschuh uploaded new packages for iucode-tool which
fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2017-0357
  iucode-tool v1.4 to v2.1 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in
  the -tr (recovery) loader.  Using specially-crafted data files and a
  specially crafted command line, it might be possible to leverage this
  heap buffer overflow to cause heap corruption, which might allow an
  attacker to run arbitrary code.

For the jessie-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.1-1~bpo8+1.

For the wheezy-backports distribution, no fix is necessary.

For users building directly from the git repository, all
debian/release/* branches have been updated with fixed versions where
necessary.

Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> uploaded new packages for wordpress
which fixed the following security problems:

CVE-2016-10066, CVE-2016-10045
  Potential Remote Command Execution (RCE) in PHPMailer
CVE-2017-5488
  Authenticated Cross-Site scripting (XSS) in update-core.php
CVE-2017-5490
  Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Theme Name fallback
CVE-2017-5491
  Post via Email Checks mail.example.com by Default
CVE-2017-5492
  Accessibility Mode Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE-2017-5493
  Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator
CVE-2017-5487
  User Information Disclosure via REST API - API doesn't exist
CVE-2017-5489
  Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via Flash Upload

For the jessie-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 4.7.1+dfsg-1~bpo8+1

Harlan Lieberman-Berg uploaded new packages for ansible which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2016-3096
  Predictable filenames could allow an attacker to a user to execute
  arbitrary commands as root inside an lxc_container managed container.

For the jessie-backports distribution, the problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.2.0-1~bpo8+1

Ryan Tandy uploaded new packages for openldap which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2015-6908
  Denis Andzakovic discovered that OpenLDAP, a free implementation of the
  Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, does not properly handle BER data.
  An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of
  service (slapd daemon crash) via a specially crafted packet.

For the wheezy-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 2.4.31+really2.4.40+dfsg-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1.

The jessie-backports suite does not contain openldap packages, while for
Debian stable suites the issue has been fixed by DSA-3356-1 (jessie and
wheezy) and DLA-309-1 (squeeze).

Christian Seiler prepared new packages for lxc which fixed the following
security problems:

CVE-2015-1331
  Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in LXC when
  creating lock files. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to
  create an arbitrary file as the root user.

CVE-2015-1334
  Roman Fiedler discovered that LXC incorrectly trusted the container's
  proc filesystem to set up AppArmor profile changes and SELinux domain
  transitions. A malicious container could create a fake proc
  filesystem and use this flaw to run programs inside the container
  that are not confined by AppArmor or SELinux.

For the wheezy-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.6-6+deb8u1~bpo70+1.

Christian Hofstaedtler uploaded new packages for pdns and
pdns-server which fixed the following security problem:

CVE-2015-1868: The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS
Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and
Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x
before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to
itself.

For the wheezy-backports distribution the problems have been fixed
in pdns version 3.4.1-4+deb8u1~bpo70+1, and in pdns-recursor
version 3.6.2-2+deb8u1~bpo70+1.

Thomas Goirand uploaded new packages for horizon which fixed the
following security problem:

CVE-2015-3988:
  Sunil Yadav from IBM Security Services reported a persistent XSS in
  Horizon. An authenticated user may conduct a persistent XSS attack by
  setting a malicious metadata to a Glance image, a Nova flavor or a
  Host Aggregate and tricking an administrator to load the update
  metadata page. Once executed in a legitimate context this attack may
  result in a privilege escalation.

For the jessie-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
2015.1.0-2~bpo8+1.

Wouter Verhelst uploaded new packages for nbd which fixed the following
security problems:

CVE-2015-0847
  Tuomas Räsänen discovered that nbd-server unsafe signal handling in
  nbd-server, the server for the Network Block Device protocol, could
  allow remote attackers to cause a deadlock in the server process and
  thus a denial of service.

CVE-2013-7441
  Tuomas Räsänen discovered that the modern-style negotiation was
  carried out in the main process before forking the actual client
  handler. This could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of
  service (crash) by querying a non-existent export.

For the squeeze-backports distribution,the problems have been fixed in
version 1:3.2-4~deb7u5~bpo60+1.

The wheezy-backports and jessie-backports suites do not contain nbd
packages, and therefore are not vulnerable (but see DSA-3271-1).

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for libreoffice which fixed the
following security problem:

CVE-2015-1774:
   It was discovered that missing input sanitising in Libreoffice's filter
   for HWP documents may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a
   malformed document is opened.

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0deb7u4~bpo60+1.

For the wheezy-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in
version 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u1~bpo70+1.

      Dear users of the backports service!

 With the release of Jessie (coming up) we are pleased to open the doors
for jessie-backports and wheezy-backports-sloppy (mostly all
architectures are already buildable there, too).  Whee!

 But, PLEASE DO READ ON, there are some changes in the process that we
would like to do for the new upload pockets.


== What to upload where ==

 As a reminder, uploads to a release-backports pocket are to be taken
from release + 1, uploads to a release-backports-sloppy pocket are to be
taken from release + 2.  Which means:

 Source Distribution | Backports Distribution | Sloppy Distribution
---------------------|------------------------|--------------------------
 stretch             | jessie-backports       | wheezy-backports-sloppy
 jessie              | wheezy-backports       | squeeze-backports-sloppy


== We drop -v switch hard requirement ==

 We required uploads to contain the changelog entries since the former
version in stable in the changes file.  This was quite convenient for
people reading the changes through the changes mailinglist but
especially also for the backports team when processing packages.

 Given that the changelogs of former backports and the packages
backported are available through the packages.debian.org website
(amongst other sources) and that it was annoying to both backporters and
also us as backports team we are dropping it as hard requirement.  It
would still be pretty awesome for the above mentioned reasons if you
could keep it as part of your workflow, especially for uploads that end
in the policy queue, but we won't reject packages based solely on that
nymore.


== Versioning ==

 Previous we used ~bpo70+1 as suffix for the versions of uploads.  We
were asked whether we might want to align that with the other suffixes
used and drop the zero from within there, and yes, we will drop it.
This means that uploads to jessie-backports should use ~bpo8+1 as
suffix, and also wheezy-backports-sloppy uses ~bpo7+1 as suffix.

 For wheezy-backports please still use ~bpo70+1 version suffixes
because of sorting reasoning, especially if there are also
squeeze-backports-sloppy packages around.  Which brings us to ...


== squeeze-backports* ==

 As you are probably aware, squeeze is still a supported release through
LTS.  The same goes for the squeeze-backports* suites, you can consider
them to be around for the same timeframe that LTS is going to be around.


== Statistics ==

 For packages backported from jessie, so far we have 995 different
source packages in wheezy-backports, and 27 different source packages in
squeeze-backports-sloppy.  Those 995 source packages took 1729 uploads
to become reality.


== Thanks ==

 Thanks have to go out to all people making backports possible, and that
includes up front the backporters themself who do upload the packages,
track and update them on a regular basis, but also the buildd team
making the autobuilding possible and the ftp masters for creating the
suites in the first place.

 Enjoy, and continue being awesome!
Rhonda, on behalf of the Backports Team