[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#771263: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#771263: gnupg buffer overflow

[Jun Matsushita]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:18:14 +0100 Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 13:34 +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> > On 01/18/2015 07:19 PM, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > It looks like I'm hitting exactly the same issue:
> > > Jan 18 09:19:49 Error: ===== Begin GnuPG log =====
> > > Jan 18 09:19:49 Error: *** buffer overflow detected ***: gpg terminated
> > > Jan 18 09:19:49 Error: ======= Backtrace: =========
> >
> > Thank you for your information. I wonder if you have reproducible
> > configuration which causes this error.
>
> I think this was caused by the fact that I was constantly making
> incremental back-ups, without making additional full backups. I had
> about 3022 files in my remote backup directory when this happend, and
> this bug occurred every time backupninja tried to make an additional
> incremental backup.
>
> In the end I could work around/fix it by modifying my backupninja config
> to make a full backup from time to time.

I also ran into the same buffer overflow error and it seems like it was also caused by having a large remote backup directory and full backups scheduled too rarely. When I requested a full backup it worked.

I’ve submitted the bug to duplicity http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816293 

Cheers,

Jun

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