[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/vlc: security bump to version 2.2.8

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Dec 14 14:45:49 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:54:14 +0100, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
 >> Version 2.2.7 fixes CVE-2017-10699
 >> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commitdiff;h=0de56d69ff06afceb5b16721ea5965a676b938b9
 >> 
 >> Removed patches applied upstream:
 >> 0013-codec-avcodec-check-avcodec-visible-sizes.patch
 >> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commitdiff;h=6cc73bcad19da2cd2e95671173f2e0d203a57e9b
 >> 
 >> 0014-decoder-check-visible-size-when-creating-buffer.patch
 >> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commitdiff;h=a38a85db58c569cc592d9380cc07096757ef3d49
 >> 
 >> Added all hashes provided by upstream, added license hashes.
 >> 
 >> Switched _SITE to https.
 >> 
 >> Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd.kuhls at t-online.de>
 >> ---
 >> ...codec-avcodec-check-avcodec-visible-sizes.patch | 33 ----------------------
 >> ...r-check-visible-size-when-creating-buffer.patch | 33 ----------------------
 >> package/vlc/vlc.hash                               | 10 +++++--
 >> package/vlc/vlc.mk                                 |  4 +--
 >> 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
 >> delete mode 100644 package/vlc/0013-codec-avcodec-check-avcodec-visible-sizes.patch
 >> delete mode 100644 package/vlc/0014-decoder-check-visible-size-when-creating-buffer.patch

 > I've applied to master. However, since 2.2.7 is the one fixing the
 > security issue, it might have been nicer to provide a patch bumping to
 > 2.2.7, which we can backport to the LTS branch, and then another patch
 > to bump to 2.2.8. I'll let Peter comment on that.

According to the changelog, 2.2.8 only contains a single bugfix so
jumping directly to 2.2.8 is imho fine:

https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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