Bug#792655: Further details on 792655

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Control: retitle 792655 libgnutls segfault crashing CUPS
Control: reassign 792655 gnutls28 3.3.8-6+deb8u1
Control: forcemerge 788704 792655
Control: affects 788704 + cups

Le jeudi, 13 août 2015, 10.28:17 Johannes Dröge a écrit :
> after upgrading to CUPS version 2 from testing if found that it gave
> the same errors when accessing SSL functions. So I concluded that
> this might be a problem in the package libgnutls-deb0-28. After a
> little searching I found this recent (14 June 2015) bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/788704
> 
> It turns out that the bug in GnuTLS is platform-specific
> 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 13
> model name      : VIA Eden Processor 1500MHz
> 
> The bug is fixed in newer upstream versions of GnuTLS but the one
> included in Debian Jessie still has the bug. After installing patched
> versions of the package, the segfault vanished. For me this is fine
> now but I hope that the patch finds its way into the stable release
> so other users don't run into this problem. Therefore, its good to
> have this documented here.

Great, thanks for the findings and explanation. I'm hereby reassigning 
this bug as not being a CUPS bug, assign it to GnuTLS and mark CUPS 
affected.

Thanks for your time!

Cheers,
OdyX
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