On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 02:48:25PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Feb 06 22:56:02, t...@theobuehler.org wrote:
> > There is an ongoing discussion on audio/sox on oss-security:
> > 
> > https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=167546008232629&w=2
> > 
> > Steffen Nurpmeso ported the patches to apply against the commit
> > we also use in our ports, that's what's included in the diff below.
> > 
> > The patches look sensible to me although I haven't reviewed them
> > thoroughly.
> > 
> > It's probably a good idea to keep an eye on this discussion both for
> > reviews of the patches and for possible developments of a new upstream
> > repo containing them.
> 
> I just asked upstream - let's wait a on whether the upstream maintainer
> decides to include these in the upstream git (SF) that we build from;
> I would prefer that to maintaining the patches (thank you Steffen!)

For reference:

https://marc.info/?l=sox-devel&m=167577672104072&w=2

The patches were sent to oss-security *because* upstream failed to react:

   I am working on fixing known vulnerabilities in sox and since upstream
   seems mostly dead (no commits in more than a year, no replies to bug
   reports)

Given this, waiting until upstream decides to unhibernate makes little
sense to me.

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