Your message dated Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:44:28 +0000
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and subject line Bug#761847: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #742111,
regarding mp3gain: ancient and probably insecure embedded code copy: mpglib
to be marked as done.

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Package: mp3gain
Version: 1.5.1-4
Severity: serious
Tags: security

["serious" severity because having looked through its implementation,
in my opinion this software should not be in Debian 8.]

mp3gain contains a modified copy of mpglib, an MP3 decoding library
originating from src:mpg123 and also found in a forked or modified form
in various other packages. It is unclear how old our particular copy is; it
says "version 0.2a" but the version in mpg123 appears to have been stuck at
version 0.2 for at least a decade.

mpglib has had various security vulnerabilities in the past, and mp3gain
appears to have inherited them. I've just done an upload fixing the ones
for which I could find patches in mpg123, but I am not at all confident
that I found everything. I intend to switch to python-rgain (which uses
GStreamer, and produces compatible ID3 tags) and avoid using mp3gain
myself in future.

If mp3gain exists in Debian, it should decode MP3s using a shared
library of some sort - perhaps libmpg123, GStreamer or libavcodec -
that is maintained by people who know the relevant codebase.

    S

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Version: 1.5.2-r2-6+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package mp3gain has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/761847

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org.

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