Bug#847417: depends on gstreamer-plugins-bad, which is an ongoing source of security holes

Joey Hess id at joeyh.name
Thu Dec 8 02:01:42 UTC 2016


Package: gnome-video-effects
Version: 0.4.1-3
Severity: normal

gstreamer-plugins-bad has been in the news at least twice recently for
security holes. 

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.html
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.dk/2016/11/0day-poc-risky-design-decisions-in.html

It seems likely that it will continue to be a source of such security
holes.

I wanted to remove gstreamer-plugins-bad from my system, but this would
remove gnome-video-effects, which would remove cheese. I don't know why
cheese needs a ton of insecurely implemented codecs for playing Nintendo
games etc in order to take snapshots and record videos. Probably it doesn't?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-video-effects depends on:
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad   1.10.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.10.0-1

gnome-video-effects recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-video-effects suggests:
pn  gnome-video-effects-frei0r  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo
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