On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:22:20AM +0100, Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote:
> Coin,
>
> Quoting Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Format string includes filename, which I believe can be arbitrary.
>> Looks like a low-severity security bug.  (Attacker tricks victim
>> into opening sound file with funny name.  Then...)
>
> Yes, that's true for any package needing a format-security patch.
>
> I'll prepare a package for stable, but i'm gonna solve the problem in  
> unstable by a removal, as nobody has stepped to handle maintainership  
> since i asked for help on #622013 and alerted the GNU application  
> maintainer.

The impact is very low, please fix this through a point update:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable

Cheers,
        Moritz



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