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and subject line Closing bugs for updates included in jessie point release
has caused the Debian Bug report #852965,
regarding jessie-pu: package libxvmc/2:1.0.8-2+deb8u1
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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: jessie
User: [email protected]
Usertags: pu

Getting there, promise.

Cheers,
Julien

diff -u libxvmc-1.0.8/debian/changelog libxvmc-1.0.8/debian/changelog
--- libxvmc-1.0.8/debian/changelog
+++ libxvmc-1.0.8/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+libxvmc (2:1.0.8-2+deb8u1) jessie; urgency=medium
+
+  * Avoid buffer underflow on empty strings (CVE-2016-7953)
+
+ -- Julien Cristau <[email protected]>  Sat, 07 Jan 2017 16:34:22 +0100
+
 libxvmc (2:1.0.8-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Link libXvMCW.so against -ldl (closes: #610592)
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- libxvmc-1.0.8.orig/src/XvMC.c
+++ libxvmc-1.0.8/src/XvMC.c
@@ -587,9 +587,9 @@
        if (*name && *busID && tmpBuf) {
            _XRead(dpy, tmpBuf, realSize);
            strncpy(*name,tmpBuf,rep.nameLen);
-           (*name)[rep.nameLen - 1] = '\0';
+           (*name)[rep.nameLen == 0 ? 0 : rep.nameLen - 1] = '\0';
            strncpy(*busID,tmpBuf+rep.nameLen,rep.busIDLen);
-           (*busID)[rep.busIDLen - 1] = '\0';
+           (*busID)[rep.busIDLen == 0 ? 0 : rep.busIDLen - 1] = '\0';
            XFree(tmpBuf);
        } else {
            XFree(*name);

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Version: 8.10

Hi,

Each of the updates referenced in these bugs was included in this
morning's jessie point release. Thanks!

Regards,

Adam

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