unbound crashes with pointer error

[Thomas Reusch]

Unbound crashed unexpectedly with the following log messages:

[1460384023] unbound[5330:1] error: validator: bad event module_event_reply
[1460384023] unbound[5330:1] fatal error: services/outside_network.c:1510: serviced_callbacks: pointer whitelist fptr_whitelist_serviced_query(p->cb) failed

This error may correspond to: https://nlnetlabs.nl/bugs-script/show_bug.cgi?id=470

# lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS

# dpkg --status unbound
Package: unbound
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1406
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.4.18-1~ubuntu12.04.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.16-stable), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libldns1 (>= 1.6.10), libpython2.7 (>= 2.7), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), unbound-anchor, adduser, openssl
Conffiles:
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This package contains the unbound daemon.
Homepage: http://www.unbound.net/

Many Thanks!

Cheers,
Thomas

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

Hi Thomas, this indeed looks like the upstream bug you've found. Since your package comes from precise-backports/universe, it's unlikely that it will receive a bug fix from Ubuntu. Upgrading to Trusty or later should give you a fixed version at least.