Comment 9 for bug 960949

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote : Re: [Bug 960949] Re: FFe: New Upstream bug and security release 0.8.1

OK

Micah Gersten <email address hidden> wrote:

>We need to upload libav-extra with this.
>
>** Also affects: libav-extra (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>** Changed in: libav-extra (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
>** Changed in: libav-extra (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => In Progress
>
>** Changed in: libav-extra (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Micah Gersten (micahg)
>
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>Title:
> FFe: New Upstream bug and security release 0.8.1
>
>Status in “libav” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>Status in “libav-extra” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
>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://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221
>
>Upstream
>changelog:(http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;h=cb04ee49926d4bf11d9480c2a8cf3092416991f7;hb=HEAD)
> 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_get_riff_video_tags()
>   avformat_get_riff_audio_tags()
>
>   Please see the file doc/APIchanges and the Doxygen documentation for
>   further information.
>
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