[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#768094: mpd: crashes with std::logic_error on database update

Max Kellermann max at duempel.org
Wed Nov 12 06:03:32 UTC 2014


On 2014/11/11 22:38, Matteo Cypriani <mcy at lm7.fr> wrote:
> Control: severity 768094 normal
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 06:47:34 +0100, Max Kellermann <max at duempel.org> wrote:
> > On 2014/11/04 23:21, Matteo Cypriani <mcy at lm7.fr> wrote:
> > > Please let me know if I can help further investigating this problem.
> > 
> > Need full backtrace.
> 
> It seems that the problem was in fact coming from a specific file (an mp3
> file with non-UTF-8 encoding inside of a zip archive). I'll investigate
> more when I get a chance (hopefully soon enough), but I'm lowering the
> severity in the meantime.

No, please don't lower it.  Even in the presence of malformed input
data, a program must never crash.  A crash is a crash, and that's
always a bad bug.

This bug (I guess) has been found and fixed in upstream git yesterday:

 http://git.musicpd.org/cgit/master/mpd.git/commit/?id=7e7b403043b55c2e1bb9227fce725ad87626ae97



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