Bug 914107

Summary:	media-libs/audiofile: please last-rite
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, ionen, pacho, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915196
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2023-09-13 14:30:43 UTC

audiofile suffers from a lot of security bugs (few of these reported by me), see https://github.com/mpruett/audiofile/issues

Latest release is 10 years ago
Latest commit is 7 years ago

Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2023-09-13 14:55:24 UTC

Would have to also last-rite xemacs, gnustep, libgig+revdeps, among others as things are right now.

fwiw our in-tree version does have a few security patches, not that I know how extensive it is

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2023-09-17 15:10:41 UTC

It seems there are few more fixes for the overflow issues in Debian and Fedora that maybe we could import