Bug#1028638: libproxy1v5: Gajim 1.6.0-1 crashes in libproxy call

Martin debacle at debian.org
Wed Jan 25 19:15:17 GMT 2023


Sorry, that went to the wrong bug report :-(

Laurent, Jeremy, Iain, I hope you are OK with the upload to
experimental!


On 2023-01-25 15:11, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:50:52PM +0000, Martin wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>> 
>> I wonder, if I should upload libproxy with your github patch¹ to
>> experimental. Then people affected (or not affected) by the bug can test
>> easily. Or you may upload, of course! :-)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> ¹ https://github.com/libproxy/libproxy/issues/199#issuecomment-1401124997
>
> sure, feel free to upload it to experimental. FWIW I do not
> understand the root cause of this issue. I'm a bit worried,
> that the patch masks a security relevant bug. It would be great
> if somebody with better C++ knowledge can look into this.
>
> The bug seems quite strange considering the segmentation fault is
> happening due to the destruction of an empty vector from the standard
> library and only in combination with glib-networking.
>
> FWIW long term the problem will be solved by glib-networking
> removing the libproxy dependency:
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib-networking/-/merge_requests/205
>
> Greetings,
>
> -- Sebastian
>
> [[End of PGP Signed Part]]



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