[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#905206: Do you have some spare cycles to have a look at this (Was: profnet is marked for autoremoval from testing)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Shayan,

more pinging the bug to extend the period the package stays in testing but
in case you might have any temporary results for this issue feel free to
post these here.

Kind regards, Andreas.

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 07:05:27PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Shayan,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 05:23:49PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote:
> > This is new territory - I have spent some time looking at this and so far I
> > could only reproduce all of what was already mentioned above.
> 
> It might become time consuming.
>  
> > I will later go more in-depth and try using mem profiling / debugging and
> > some trial and error to try figure out why this gets a segmentation fault
> > because this issue is really annoying and needs rectifying.
> 
> In any case yes. While I guess the program is not used in really security
> relevant context you can never know and this kind of crash is a security
> issue (besides the fact that it just does not the job its supposed to do).
> 
> Thanks for working at this
> 
>       Andreas. 
> 
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