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needrestart package

needrestart 3.1-1ubuntu0.1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

needrestart (3.1-1ubuntu0.1) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code exec via unanchored regexes
    - debian/patches/CVE-2022-30688.patch: improve regexes in
      perl/lib/NeedRestart/Interp/Perl.pm,
      perl/lib/NeedRestart/Interp/Python.pm,
      perl/lib/NeedRestart/Interp/Ruby.pm.
    - CVE-2022-30688

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>  Mon, 16 May 2022 07:13:17 -0400

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Uploaded by:
Marc Deslauriers
Uploaded to:
Bionic
Original maintainer:
Ubuntu Developers
Architectures:
all
Section:
admin
Urgency:
Medium Urgency

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Bionic updates universe misc
Bionic security universe misc

Builds

Bionic: [FULLYBUILT] amd64

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File Size SHA-256 Checksum
needrestart_3.1.orig.tar.gz 57.5 KiB 69880aa63d199c3dce9d155820787c68b7333a04bc9fee8025ff342ec96e9019
needrestart_3.1-1ubuntu0.1.debian.tar.xz 8.0 KiB 15007cc1b57e4d4f066e49869caf8f83f6fc8c29f345b5bf2a17b4172cc5ee5a
needrestart_3.1-1ubuntu0.1.dsc 1.8 KiB 6dcdaee51bb88aa5ee706fc5ae33530d72dd9bfd72815b2efda11693a8eaf2d8

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Binary packages built by this source

needrestart: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades

 needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades.
 It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.
 .
 Features:
  - supports (but does not require) systemd
  - binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers)
  - tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons
    (supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby)
  - tries to detect required resarts of containers (docker, LXC)
  - tries to detect pending kernel upgrades
  - tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs
  - could be used as nagios check_command
  - fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks