Bug#480059: vorbis-tools vulnerable to CVE-2008-1686

Steve Kemp skx at debian.org
Thu May 8 10:10:05 UTC 2008


On Wed May 07, 2008 at 18:12:09 -0400, Jamie Strandboge wrote:

> vorbis-tools contains embedded speex code, and although vorbis-tools is linked
> to libspeex, it compiles the vulnerable code. Attached is a debdiff that Ubuntu
> is using in its 1.1.1 versions of vorbis-tools (fuzz removed).

  I'd rather see a patch that makes the vorbis-tools link
 against the system-wide library, and not compile the vulnerable
 code at all.

  Would it be possible for you to provide such a thing, or is that
 too hard?

Steve
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