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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 22:43:13
Message-Id: 1930921.Du3vUoqJVs@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10) by "»Q«"
1 On Wednesday 06 Jan 2016 12:27:30 »Q« wrote:
2 > On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 08:26:42 -0800
3 >
4 > Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public
6 > > > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a
7 > > > patch. See <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553742#c11> and
8 > > > the following comment.
9 > >
10 > > So everyone is just living with the supposed security vulnerability on
11 > > their system?
12 >
13 > Not everyone. SUSE and Debian seem to have patches for this for 0.10.
14 >
15 > <https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0797.html>
16 >
17 > <https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3225>
18
19 I tried removing 0.10.36-r2, but stopped, because some applications (Opera,
20 Pidgin, farstream) currently require it.
21
22 --
23 Regards,
24 Mick

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