synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in File()

Bug #1163736 reported by Smulle
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Synaptic crash when tryining to remove configuration for pakage that no longer is in repo
Used aptitude purge instead

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: synaptic 0.80~exp1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 3 09:00:50 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-02 (59 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f31a6e17994 <_ZN10pkgRecords6LookupERKN8pkgCache15VerFileIteratorE+20>: mov (%rax),%eax
 PC (0x7f31a6e17994) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x7f37d03ca800) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 pkgRecords::Lookup(pkgCache::VerFileIterator const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgRecords::Lookup()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-04 (57 days ago)
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Smulle (smulle-is) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 File (this=<optimized out>) at ../build/include/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h:394
 pkgRecords::Lookup (this=0xe08800, Ver=...) at pkgrecords.cc:62
 RPackage::RPackage (this=0x1f56140, lister=<optimized out>, depcache=<optimized out>, records=<optimized out>, pkg=...) at rpackage.cc:82
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgRecords::Lookup()
+ synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in File()
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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