Bug#867303: Segmentation fault in `copy_record_version()`

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Sat Jul 15 16:46:47 UTC 2017


Control: reopen -1
Control: tags -1 pending

On 2017-07-15 Paul Menzel <pm.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Andreas,


> Am Samstag, den 15.07.2017, 13:34 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> > On 2017-07-13 Paul Menzel <pm.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I propose to close this issue, and I’ll try to get in contact with the
> > > upstream Evolution folks.
> > 
> > Okay, thanks for taking care.

> It turns out that upstream added a commit to maybe fix such the issue,
> as it’s still not clear if, for example, a memory corruption in
> Evolution caused this.

> Maybe that commit should be backported.

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
| The commit cf0f4f92 should address the issue in later 3.5.x releases.
| I've realized that by calling gnutls_bye() on an already terminated or
| deinitialized session this can occur. Thus it is better to return an
| error in that misuse than crashing.

Let's reopen. I have pulled the patch in GIT, it will be included in the
next upload to unstable (unles it braeks the testsuite, I have not
finished a test-build yet. ;-)

cu Andreas
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