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needrestart package

needrestart 3.5-5ubuntu2.1 source package in Ubuntu

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needrestart (3.5-5ubuntu2.1) jammy-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 07:08:25 -0400

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

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Builds

Jammy: [FULLYBUILT] amd64

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File Size SHA-256 Checksum
needrestart_3.5.orig.tar.gz 66.2 KiB e9453efde9a0ebaefa5cb3af241382203d14abcc7091bee1249b60039348597e
needrestart_3.5-5ubuntu2.1.debian.tar.xz 31.0 KiB 7450211f7709bfb2c0bbbd19313e6cc023b6dc1f0eedacbb02c3c5e5377255c0
needrestart_3.5-5ubuntu2.1.dsc 1.9 KiB 56fabcc041ff50365e0e78fa695b2658781d3ada5298d6279f5d7929e90a6959

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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 restarts 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