[needs-update] VLC media player 1.1.7

Bug #709315 reported by Schwani
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Christoph Korn

Bug Description

Hello.

There is a new update of the VLC media player (1.1.6).

News and PPA => http://www.webupd8.org/2011/01/install-vlc-116-in-ubuntu-1010-maverick.html

Thank you.
Schwani

CVE References

Papp Bence (sclegnrbs)
Changed in getdeb.net:
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Papp Bence (sclegnrbs)
Christoph Korn (c-korn)
summary: - [needs-update] VLC media player 1.1.6
+ [needs-update] VLC media player 1.1.7
Revision history for this message
Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

Taking vlc 1.1.5-1~getdeb1 as starting point.

Changed in getdeb.net:
assignee: Papp Bence (sclegnrbs) → Christoph Korn (c-korn)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

Package has been built for maverick.

Changed in getdeb.net:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Christoph Korn (c-korn)
tags: added: tested-maverick.amd64
Revision history for this message
Christoph Korn (c-korn) wrote :

Published.

Thanks.

---------------
vlc (1.1.7-1~getdeb1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #709315)
    Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
    --------------------------------

    Linux port:
     * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
       #234484 and #260719.

    Mac OS X port:
     * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
     * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
       and stability reasons

    Demuxers:
     * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
       VideoLAN-SA-1102

    Translations:
     * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations

    Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
    ----------------------------------

    Source:
     * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux

    Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
    ---------------------------------

    Audio output:
     * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
       PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
       Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
       and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.

    Access:
     * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows

    Decoders:
     * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already
     working)
     * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
     * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
     * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101

    Demuxers:
     * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
     * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a
     keyframe
     * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)

    Subtitles and renderer:
     * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
     * Mark more freetype options as safe
     * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
     * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
       discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522

    Visualization:
     * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
     * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
     * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
     * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X

    Interfaces:
     * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
     * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements

    Miscellaneous fixes:
     * KDE device solid actions
     * XDG screensaver
     * Transcode integer overflow
     * HTTP Icy metadata reading
     * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers

    Translations:
     * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish,
     Galician,
       Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese,
       Dutch,
       Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:24:20 +0100

Changed in getdeb.net:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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