need guidance for CVE-2008-2009

Martin Schulze joey at infodrom.org
Mon May 4 07:57:41 UTC 2009


Hi Michael!

Michael S. Gilbert wrote:
> dear security team,
> 
> CVE-2008-2009 does not affect the etch or lenny versions of vorbis;
> however, there were additional sanity checks added to the unstable
> packages (bug #482039) to hopefully prevent future attacks similar to
> the ones in this CVE.
> 
> should this issue be treated as unimportant and as a candidate for an
> spu/ospu?  or should it just be treated as unimportant?

Yes.  Please talk to the stable release team to find out whether they
would accept such an upload.

Regards,

	Joey

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