Bug#961128: apt-transport-https: https fails with segmentation fault

[mehturt@protonmail.com]

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 3:04 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:

> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:41:12PM +0200, Mehturt wrote:
>
> > Package: apt-transport-https
> > Version: 1.4.10
> > Severity: important
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > running "apt update" finishes with segmentation fault
> > when the following entry is in my sources.list:
> > deb http://packages.matrix.org/debian stretch main
> > Removing the entry from sources.list produces no crash.
> > This seems to be similar to already reported
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778375
>
> Please obtain a full backtrace.

Sorry, not sure what full backtrace means, but I installed apt-transport-https-dbgsym,
run apt update again and got this using gdb and the core file:

Core was generated by `/usr/lib/apt/methods/https.bin'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00007f0d6c04f4d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f0d6c04f4d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4
#1  0x00005638ad9bf74b in HttpsMethod::~HttpsMethod (this=0x7ffe4abe9690, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at ./methods/https.cc:538
#2  main (argv=<optimized out>) at ./methods/https.cc:546