Bug#837700: gnutls: GNUTLS segfaults on initialization

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-09-13 J Phelps <godless at users.sf.net> wrote:
> Package: libgnutls30
> Version: 3.5.4-2
> Severity: grave
> File: gnutls
> Justification: renders package unusable

> The bug is caused by GNUTLS being compiled with the headers of and old
> version of Nettle, but the package depending on (or failing to account
> for a breaking change to) a newer version of Nettle.
[...]
> By doing this, I was able to get Chromium 53.0.2785.92 working, which was
> previously crashing because of this problem.
 

Can you provide a (simple) way to reproduce the issue?

Your diagnosis cannot be completely correct. e.g. libgnutls30
3.5.4-2 on i386 (which you reported the issue against) was built against
nettle-dev i386 3.2-1 which continues to be the latest version of nettle
available in Debian. So you cannot experience a breakage in Debian
caused by the Debian-installed nettle version being newer and having a
different ABI than the version GnuTLS was built against.

TIA, cu Andreas
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