Bug#977041: libapt-pkg5.0: apt install segfaults

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:13:36PM +0000, Harald Welte wrote:
> Package: libapt-pkg5.0
> Version: 1.4.11
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Using a clean debian:stretch container of today (2020-12-10) from
> hub.docker.com suddenly makes "apt install" of a single dpkg package
> segfault:
> 
> root@5a1043034f18:/tmp# apt-get install
> /tmp/libfftranscode0_0.3_amd64.deb 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> with backtrace:

This backtrace is useless, install libapt-pkg5.0-dbgsym and apt-dbgsym
from the dbgsym repository and try again.

> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007f4e926c4140 in pkgPolicy::InitDefaults() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
> (gdb) bt full
> #0  0x00007f4e926c4140 in pkgPolicy::InitDefaults() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
> No symbol table info available.

This is crashing in the policy, so it's unlikely to be the new stuff in
1.4.11.

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