update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::VerIterator::TranslatedDescription()

[Adrien Blanc]

No idea why this happened

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Apr 13 09:22:29 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1334301764
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 731
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 794
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64+mac (20120324)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/update-manager --no-focus-on-map
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fd8915bf986 <_ZNK8pkgCache11VerIterator21TranslatedDescriptionEv+86>: mov 0x14(%rdx),%edx
 PC (0x7fd8915bf986) ok
 source "0x14(%rdx)" (0xffff3f000113) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-manager
StacktraceTop:
 pkgCache::VerIterator::TranslatedDescription() const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt_pkg.so
 ?? ()
 _PyObject_GenericGetAttrWithDict ()
 _PyAptObject_getattro(_object*, _object*) () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt_pkg.so
Title: update-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::VerIterator::TranslatedDescription()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 pkgCache::VerIterator::TranslatedDescription() const () from /tmp/tmp2v6eK9/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 VersionGetTranslatedDescription (Self=<optimized out>) at python/cache.cc:1054
 getset_get ()
 _PyObject_GenericGetAttrWithDict ()
 _PyAptObject_getattro (self=<apt_pkg.Version at remote 0x343c5d0>, attr='translated_description') at python/generic.cc:91

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

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.