Re: [Fwd: Bug#509184: bacula-director-pgsql: Director crashes with double free from jcr.c:343]
John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I received bug#509184 today. It was reported against a version of
> bacula in backports, but applies to the version in lenny as well (though
> not the version in sid).
>
> The bug in question is a double-free and does not appear to be a
> security hole. It results in a crash of the entire backup system. It
> seems to be somewhat rare, but I am not certain of that.
>
> Upstream has issued a small patch that they have tested.
>
> Would you approve an upload to testing-proposed-updates into lenny with
> such a patch if I built it?
Would unblocking the version in unstable also be fine?
unblocked
Cheers
Luk
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>
> Subject:
> Bug#509184: bacula-director-pgsql: Director crashes with double free
> from jcr.c:343
> From:
> Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>
> Date:
> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:03:52 +0100
> To:
> fabien foglia <fabien.foglia@tigrou3tac.org>, 509184@bugs.debian.org
>
> To:
> fabien foglia <fabien.foglia@tigrou3tac.org>, 509184@bugs.debian.org
>
>
> * fabien foglia <fabien.foglia@tigrou3tac.org> [2008-12-19 12:30:51 CET]:
>> Version: 2.4.2-3.1~bpo40+1
>
> As this is a backports version I would encourage you to either ask
> directly on backports-users mailinglist which is the central address for
> packages taken from backports, and/or at least send me a copy of the
> bugreport when you're confident that it's not just a problem of the
> backport. :)
>
>> I'm using etch-backports bacula-director with postgresql support on
>> Debian etch/amd64.
>> Sometimes, director crashes with "ABORTING due to ERROR in
>> smartall.c:194 *double* *free* from jcr.c:343"
>> It's the bug #1162 in the bacula bug tracker.
>>
>> It's resolved with this patch :
>> http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bacula/2.4.2-jobend-crash.patch
>
> Ah, that's neat and convenient. The patch looks pretty tight to the
> issue. I am discussing with John what's the best approach for it. For
> what I understand it's a crash after the backup is finished so the
> impact is pretty low?
>
>> please merge this patch or update bacula-director to the lastest 2.4.2
>> bacula revision
>
> I'm not completely sure what you mean with "the latest 2.4.2 bacula
> revision". There is only a single 2.4.2 release, not several revisions
> to it ... But the patch does look like it makes sense indeed.
>
> Thanks for the hint,
> Rhonda
>
>
>
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