Package: dbus-1
Version: 0.23.2-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Use of the <policy group="..." tag in dbus configuration files causes
a segfault. I've attached the patch from the Ubuntu dbus-1 packages which
appears
to fix the fault
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (103, 'testing'), (102, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages dbus-1 depends on:
ii adduser 3.62 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-1 XML parsing C library - runtime li
-- no debconf information
diff -Nur dbus-0.23/dbus/dbus-userdb.c dbus-0.23.new/dbus/dbus-userdb.c
--- dbus-0.23/dbus/dbus-userdb.c 2004-08-29 04:14:52.000000000 +0200
+++ dbus-0.23.new/dbus/dbus-userdb.c 2005-02-14 13:45:03.779521400 +0100
@@ -176,11 +176,24 @@
return NULL;
}
- if (!_dbus_group_info_fill_gid (info, gid, error))
+
+ if (gid != DBUS_GID_UNSET)
{
- _DBUS_ASSERT_ERROR_IS_SET (error);
- free_group_info (info);
- return NULL;
+ if (!_dbus_group_info_fill_gid (info, gid, error))
+ {
+ _DBUS_ASSERT_ERROR_IS_SET (error);
+ free_group_info (info);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ if (!_dbus_group_info_fill (info, groupname, error))
+ {
+ _DBUS_ASSERT_ERROR_IS_SET (error);
+ free_group_info (info);
+ return NULL;
+ }
}
if (!_dbus_hash_table_insert_ulong (db->groups, info->gid, info))
