FFe: New Upstream bug and security release 0.8.1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
libav (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Micah Gersten | ||
libav-extra (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Micah Gersten |
Bug Description
LibAV 0.8.1 is released and correct a number of usability bugs and potentials security holes.
Some bugs are pretty annoying for multimedia enthusiasts like this bug preventing MLT to work properly so Kdenlive and OpenShot and a couple of other video editing softwares are not working like they should : http://
Upstream changelog:(http://
version 0.8.1:
- Several bugs and crashes have been fixed in the following codecs: AAC,
AC-3, ADPCM, AMR (both NB and WB), ATRAC3, CAVC, Cook, camstudio, DCA,
DPCM, DSI CIN, DV, EA TGQ, FLAC, fraps, G.722 (both encoder and
decoder), H.264, huvffyuv, BB JV decoder, Indeo 3, KGV1, LCL, the
libx264 wrapper, MJPEG, mp3on4, Musepack, MPEG1/2, PNG, QDM2, Qt RLE,
ROQ, RV10, RV30/RV34/RV40, shorten, smacker, subrip, SVQ3, TIFF,
Truemotion2, TTA, VC1, VMware Screen codec, Vorbis, VP5, VP6, WMA,
Westwood SNDx, XXAN.
- This release additionally updates the following codecs to the
bytestream2 API, and therefore benefit from additional overflow
checks: XXAN, ALG MM, TQG, SMC, Qt SMC, ROQ, PNG
- Several bugs and crashes have been fixed in the following formats:
AIFF, ASF, DV, Matroska, NSV, MOV, MPEG-TS, Smacker, Sony OpenMG, RM,
SWF.
- Libswscale has an potential overflow for large image size fixed.
- The following APIs have been added:
avcodec_is_open()
avformat_
avformat_
Please see the file doc/APIchanges and the Doxygen documentation for
further information.
summary: |
- New Upstream bug and security release for 0.8 branch + FFe: New Upstream bug and security release 0.8.1 |
description: | updated |
Changed in libav (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
security vulnerability: | no → yes |
Changed in libav (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
description: | updated |
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:20:32 (CET), Fabien Lusseau wrote:
> Public bug reported: bugzilla. libav.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 221 libav.org/ index.html
>
> LibAV 0.8.1 is released and correct a number of usability bugs and
> potentials security holes.
>
> Some bugs are pretty annoying for multimedia enthusiasts like this bug
> preventing MLT to work properly so Kdenlive and OpenShot and a couple of
> other video editing softwares are not working like they should :
> http://
>
> The complete list of changes is on the LibAV project front page:
> http://
>
> Please consider to upgrade LibAV before the release.
I'm currently travelling, but I intend to upload libav 0.8.1 to precise
when I get back home on Friday.
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4