[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#944914: libgpgme11: Buffer overflow while using claws-mail

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Hello Bernahrd,


Am Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:50:13 +0100
schrieb Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu at mailbox.org>:

> Another question, which version of claws-mail and plugins are you running?
> (And are they the binaries from debian or self-built?)

I use the Debian packages (current version in testing - 3.17.4-2+b1).


> Maybe a run with valgrind could shed some light on some wrong memory accesses.
> (But may also write many unrelated accesses,
> and slow the application down to an unusable speed.)

Thanks, I will try that.


> I found this upstream feature request, which could fit,
> but there is also a change mentioned that should avoid that crash,
> that is already included ...
> Are you maybe hitting this limit?
> 
>     https://dev.gnupg.org/T2385

Right now the number of open file descriptors look fine:
(but this may change at some point in time)

$ ls -l /proc/$(pidof claws-mail)/fd | wc -l
39


Thank you!

Cheers,
Lars