Requesting unblocking of gxine

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

Could you allow gxine 0.5.8-2 into etch? Reason is that it fixes bug 405876,
"segfault on startup with long HOME dir" (which is tagged important, but
gxine is an optional package).

This version also enables the watchdog code. I chose this over some locking
bug fixes as the "safer" alternative (it was enabled in Ubuntu at my
request); however, I consider both to be important. If you think that I
should include these patches, I'll prepare 0.5.8-3 once 0.5.8-2 is in etch.

Changelog:

gxine (0.5.8-2) unstable; urgency=high

  * SECURITY FIX (local exploit)			(closes: #405876)
    This version fixes a potential buffer overflow in gxine's server
    component and in gxine_client. This overflow would occur were $HOME
    sufficiently long - 94 bytes or more would cause socket creation or
    connection failure, and 242 bytes or more would cause a segfault or
    possible arbitrary code execution.
  * Enabled the watchdog code (which will kill gxine if it gets stuck for
    30 seconds).

 -- Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>  Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:32:05 +0000

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