[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,

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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