[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#584522: [libdbus-1-3] Race condition in protected_change_timeout

[Peter Fritzsche]

Package: libdbus-1-3
Version: 1.2.24-1
Severity: important

dbus has a race condition in protected_change_timeout which causes different
applications like akonadi and other kde applications to crash or to behave
strangely (mostly seen on a single core cpu... but happens always). More
information about that can be found at
 http://randomguy3.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/d-bus-threading-issues/

and the patch can be found at
 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dbus-core-mt/dbus-core-mt/multithread-locking-fix.patch

I see this as important problem because it breaks other software on system.
Maybe it is even a release critical bug.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.uni-kl.de 
  500 unstable        ftp.debian.org 
  500 testing         ftp.debian.org 
  500 stable          ftp.debian.org 
    1 experimental    ftp.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends      (Version) | Installed
======================-+-===========
libc6       (>= 2.3.3) | 2.11.1-2


Recommends      (Version) | Installed
=========================-+-===========
dbus                      | 1.2.24-1


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