crash due to incomplete AVX check

[Gregor Jasny]

Hello,

gnutls 3.7.3-4ubuntu1.1 does not properly check for AVX support. On VMs that disable AVX / XSAVE but still set the AVX cpuid capability processes that use gnutls are crashing with an illegal instruction error.

For details see:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1282#note_991427169

Attached you'll find the debdiff which adds
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/8ff391fa011e02c88b0d099061ca62e88ab68011

I locally built the package and verified that the error on my VM is gone. Please consider including this patch into jammy. Upstream acknowledged that this patch is sufficient to fix the bug:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1631#note_1084762091

Thanks,
Gregor

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[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

Hi!

I'd be happy to sponsor this as an SRU to Jammy as well as a patch against the current Kinetic release, but could you please follow the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates beforehand, in particular regarding the bug template?

Thanks :)

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

I uploaded your patch to Kinetic. It will be blocked in the queue for a couple of days until we get the beta out, and then it's likely it will fail to build because of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/p11-kit/+bug/1991067

I'll retrigger the build once that other one is fixed in -proposed.

I took the liberty of amending your changelog entry to add a reference to this bug:

   * Fix Segmentation Fault due to misdetected Intel AVX support
     (LP: #1988398)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnutls28 - 3.7.7-2ubuntu2

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gnutls28 (3.7.7-2ubuntu2) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Fix Segmentation Fault due to misdetected Intel AVX support
    (LP: #1988398)

 -- Gregor Jasny <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:42:53 +0100

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

According to the comment history, this SRU is currently waiting for an SRU bug description.

[Adrien Nader (adrien)]

Is there still a wish for this on Jammy?

[Adrien Nader (adrien)]

Removing the foundations-todo tag as I don't see a plan to work on this in the near future considering the current state and infos available.