apt_pkg.parse_commandline crashes with SIGSEGV

[Evgeny Kapun]

Binary package hint: python-apt

This code crashes with SIGSEGV:

 import apt_pkg
 apt_pkg.parse_commandline(apt_pkg.config, [], [])

Architecture: amd64
apt 0.8.10ubuntu1
python-apt 0.7.100.1ubuntu4

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Confirmed. I'll take a closer look at it soon.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

A fix has been committed to the debian-experimental branch.

It can be seen at
http://bzr.debian.org<email address hidden>

The message for this commit is:
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revno: 510
revision-id: <email address hidden>
parent: <email address hidden>
fixes bug(s): https://launchpad.net/bugs/707416
committer: Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>
branch nick: debian-experimental
timestamp: Mon 2011-04-11 10:13:15 +0200
message:
  apt_pkg: Raise error when parse_commandline gets empty argv (LP: #707416)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.8.0~exp4ubuntu1

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python-apt (0.8.0~exp4ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Merged from debian/experimental, remaining changes:
    - updated mirror list
    - do not disable 0.7 compat API yet

python-apt (0.8.0~exp4) experimental; urgency=low

  * apt_pkg: Add OrderList, wanted for mancoosi (Closes: #623485)
  * apt_pkg: Add subclassing fun to PackageManager, for #623485 as well
  * apt.cache: Emit change signals in ProblemResolver
  * apt.Cache: Add a _changes_count member for later use

python-apt (0.8.0~exp3) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Update enable_component to also apply to -src entries (LP: #758732)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * apt_pkg: Add apt_pkg.Version.multi_arch and friends

python-apt (0.8.0~exp2) experimental; urgency=low

  * aptsources: Parse multi-arch sources.list files correctly
  * aptsources: Allow insertion of new multi-arch entries
  * aptsources: Various cleanup work
  * all: Fix all instances of ResourceWarning about unclosed files
  * tests/test_apt_cache.py: Use assertTrue() instead of assert_()
  * apt_pkg: Raise error when parse_commandline gets empty argv (LP: #707416)
  * apt_pkg: Fix time_to_str, time_rfc1123 to accept more correct values
    (time_to_str accepts unsigned long, time_rfc1123 long long, y2k31-correct).
  * apt.progress: Use long for ETA, natural type for size (LP: #377375)
  * aptsources/sourceslist.py: s/aptsource.py/sourceslist.py/ (LP: #309603)
  * doc/examples: Add example on how to get architecture names (LP: #194374)
  * apt_pkg: Fix unsigned/long-vs-int issues (LP: #610820)
  * apt.cache: Document that update() may need an open() (Closes: #622342)
  * apt.cache: Add a fetch_archives() method (Closes: #622347)
  * doc: Fix a minor formatting error, patch by Jakub Wilk (Closes: #608914)
  * apt.package: Add 'tasks' to Version, improve doc (Closes: #619574)
  * doc: Fix documentation of BaseDependency.relation (Closes: #607031)

python-apt (0.8.0~exp1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Disable the old-style API, and break all packages using it
  * Add an 'is_multi_arch' attribute to apt_pkg.Cache
  * Add apt_pkg.Group class, wrapping pkgCache::GrpIterator
  * Change apt_pkg.Cache() so that passing None for 'progress' results in
    no progress output
  * Support (name, arch) tuples in apt_pkg.Cache mappings, wrapping
    FindPkg() with two string parameters.
  * Introduce apt_pkg.Cache.groups and apt_pkg.Cache.group_count
  * Fix debian/rules to work correctly with tilde in version number
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 24 May 2011 10:08:56 +0200