[Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] data/dla-needed.txt: re-add libav and re-claim it

Mike Gabriel sunweaver at debian.org
Sat Aug 31 22:49:14 BST 2019



Mike Gabriel pushed to branch master at Debian Security Tracker / security-tracker


Commits:
bd9d9707 by Mike Gabriel at 2019-08-31T21:49:05Z
data/dla-needed.txt: re-add libav and re-claim it

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1 changed file:

- data/dla-needed.txt


Changes:

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data/dla-needed.txt
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@@ -57,6 +57,18 @@ imagemagick
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 irssi (Mike Gabriel)
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+libav (Mike Gabriel)
+  NOTE: 20190831: There are currently 19 CVE issues known for libav in jessie,
+  NOTE: 20190831: 11 tagged as <no-dsa>. These issues have been triaged, no patch
+  NOTE: 20190831: has been found, so far. If you pick libav, be prepared to work
+  NOTE: 20190831: out what these patches might be.
+  NOTE: 20190831: What helps... Most issues have been resolved in ffmpeg, but
+  NOTE: 20190831: have not been referenced as such. The upstream bug reports
+  NOTE: 20190831: for libav have often been debugged very accurately, so that it is
+  NOTE: 20190831: possible to derive from the libav bug report which ffmpeg commit
+  NOTE: 20190831: might fix the issue. Furthermore, most libav bugs have PoCs,
+  NOTE: 20190831: so there is something one can test with and see if the fix worked.
+--
 libcommons-compress-java
   NOTE: 20190830: no patch reference found (sunweaver)
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