Zeitgeist plugin read/write after free on datasource registration

[Steve Dodier-Lazaro]

The Zeitgeist plugin creates a GPtrArray to give to libzeitgeist when registering a Zeitgeist datasource. libzeitgeist internally sinks this reference, but the plugin assumes the GPtrArray to still be available and later attempts to unref it.

The attached patch adds a reference to the GPtrArray to keep it available until the end of the plugin's initialisation code, where it is unrefed. The patch is designed to integrate with quilt on top of gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu10.

The upstream bug report is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752824.

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[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

It's possible that bug 1232987, bug 1273230 and bug 1382792 may be duplicates of this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gedit - 3.10.4-0ubuntu13

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gedit (3.10.4-0ubuntu13) wily; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_zeitgeist_crash.patch:
    - Fix crash in Zeitgeist plugin (LP: #1477983)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2015 10:26:53 +1200