Change logs for vlc source package in Dapper

  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6.3) dapper-security; urgency=low
    
      * SECURITY UPDATE: (LP: #207284)
       + debian/patches/031_CVE-2008-1489.dpatch
        - Integer overflow in the MP4_ReadBox_rdrf function in libmp4.c allows
          remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly
          execute arbitrary code via a crafted MP4 RDRF box that triggers a
          heap-based buffer overflow.
    
      * References
       + http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-1489
       + http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/09572892df7e72c0d4e598c0b5e076cf330d8b0a
    
     -- Emanuele Gentili <email address hidden>   Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:48:00 +0200
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6.2) dapper-security; urgency=low
    
      * SECURITY UPDATE:
        - debian/patches/CVE-2008-0984.dpatch (LP: #195949)
         + VLC media player's MPEG-4 file format parser (a.k.a. the MP4 demuxer)
           suffers from an arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability when using
           crash the player instance.
    
      * References
        - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0984
        - http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html
    
     -- Emanuele Gentili <email address hidden>   Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:09:28 +0100
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6.1) dapper-security; urgency=low
    
      * Fix format string vulnerability with patch taken from Debian BTS
        MOAB-02-01-2007-CVE-2007-0017.dpatch, CVE-2007-0017. Closes Malone: #78610
    
     -- Martin Juergens <email address hidden>   Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:39:58 +0100
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6) dapper; urgency=low
    
      "'Time to race', she said, 'Race the downhill'."
    
      * Add debian/patches/24_prefs_stacking_fix, fixing stacking in
        Preferences dialog. Taken from upstream svn changeset 13795, thanks
        to Bruce Cowan (Closes: Malone #31891).
      * Demote ttf-freefont, ttf-thryomanes to Suggests as the former
        provides bad metrics for Thai. See Debian #362071 for additional
        information.
      * Don't use gcc-snapshot as the compiler. See Debian #361729 for more
        information.
      * Make vlc.desktop HIG-compliant.
      * Rebuild against new libebml-dev and libmatroska-dev, fixing crashes
        with Matroska files (Closes: Malone #29644).
      * Use our own faad2 and x264, fixing garbled graphics (Closes: Malone
        #28539). Please see Debian #365389 if the inclusion of these
        libraries stirs your ire.
    
     -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>   Tue, 23 May 2006 03:42:19 -0400
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu5) dapper; urgency=low
    
      * Integrate updates from Debian:
        - Enable support for zeroconf/bonjour, musepack decoding, and VCD
          navigation (and adjust debian/{control,rules} accordingly, adding
          debian/patches/22_avahi_client_0.6_api).
    
     -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>   Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:38:55 -0800
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
    
      * removed nonexistent xlibs-static-pic build dep to fix FTBFS
      * changes UBUNTU_ENV from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/xpidl
        to /usr/lib/firefox/xpidl to fix FTBFS
      * added 21_gnome-screensaver-support.dpatch to automagically
        disable screensavers while playing a movie
    
     -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden>   Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:24:37 +0100
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low
    
    
      * debian/control: Replace mozilla-dev build dependency with
        firefox-dev. Change mozilla-plugin-vlc's Recommends appropriately.
        Fixes FTBFS due to mozilla-dev muck on [!amd64].
      * debian/rules: Elide Ubuntu modifications into UBUNTU_ENV to pass
        to configure (MOZILLA_CONFIG=/usr/bin/firefox-config ,
        XPIDL=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/xpidl)
    
     -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>  Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:29:07 -0800
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low
    
    
      * Rebuild for new dbus.
    
     -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:32:09 -0800
  • vlc (0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
    
    
      * Resynchronise with Debian:
        - Fix build dependency on GL headers.
        - Reintegrate patch for HAL 0.5 API in src/libvlc.c(Debian#332927),
          fixing FTBFS.
        - Fix broken mailcap entries in vlc.mime (Closes: Debian#340434,
          Debian#339570).
        - Make vlc depend on vlc-plugin-alsa (Closes: #3678, #4544).
        - Fix unicast streaming (Closes: #4444).
    
     -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>  Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:50:24 -0800
  • vlc (0.8.4-svn20051025-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
    
    
      * New svn checkout to fix the Unicode issues once and for all that
        forced build-depending on libwxgtk2.4-dev in Breezy. Change _back_
        to build-depend on libwxgtk2.6-dev (Closes: #3179, #3505, #3559).
      * Use hal patch from 0.8.4-svn20050920-3+hal0.
      * debian/:
        + Major purge of unused dpatches.
    
     -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:46:32 -0700