Bug#689519: libapt-pkg4.12: SIGSEGV when used by apt-get or aptitude
Package: libapt-pkg4.12
Version: 0.9.7.5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Dear Maintainer,
I have just found a bug (segfault) that seems to be related to this library.
Originally the error occured when I wanted to install a package. Here is a
gdb-backtrace from apt-get and aptitude:
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% gdb `which apt-get`
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/apt-get...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) set args install libnvidia-compiler
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install libnvidia-compiler
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 50%
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7b11020 in pkgDepCache::CheckDep(pkgCache::DepIterator, int, pkgCache::PkgIterator&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
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The same applies to aptitude (same method invokation led to a segfault). Please let me know if you need any further information.
Thank you for having a look,
Rainer
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libapt-pkg4.12 depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-7
ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-7
ii multiarch-support 2.13-35
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
libapt-pkg4.12 recommends no packages.
libapt-pkg4.12 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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