On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:29:54 +0200, Antonio Diaz Diaz <anto...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > I did provide a way to reproduce the problem, and Daniel reproduced it;
> > I will readily admit that it's neither convenient nor particularly useful
> > to identify the source of the problem, but dismissing this because
> > there's no way to reproduce it seems rather unfair to me.
> >
> > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902936#5 for
> > details. (I did also suggest that the real issue may lie somewhere else,
> > since zutils 1.7 exhibits the bug if it's built on Debian stable, and
> > doesn't if it's built on unstable.)  
> 
> Thanks for the report and for your support. I have finally managed to 
> reproduce the problem. It seems to happen only when the -t option is 
> used. It is not a double-free as Ben Hutchings suggested, but a buffer 
> overrun.

Fantastic, thanks!

> BTW, what I find unfair are all those accusations of dismissal. I do not 
> have access to a Debian installation and have spent a lot of time trying 
> to find a file that triggered this bug.

Please accept my apologies, I didn’t mean to mischaracterise your work or
your emails, and I do appreciate all your efforts in this matter.

Regards,

Stephen

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