Package: piuparts Version: 0.41 Severity: normal Tags: patch Bad maintainer scripts can go havoc and go into infinite loops producing infinite output. Popen.communicate() happily buffers all this until the system runs out of memory.
One example is the distributed-net package in sid/non-free. It does not respect DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive and runs the configuration in an infinite loop A patch that replaces Popen.communicate() with a limited read of 1 MB is available at git://github.com/anbe42/piuparts.git fix/excessive-output Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (130, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages piuparts depends on: ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 ii debootstrap 1.0.37 ii lsb-release 3.2-23.2squeeze1 ii lsof 4.81.dfsg.1-1 ii python 2.6.7-3 ii python-debian 0.1.18 ii python2.6 2.6.7-3 ii python2.7 2.7.2-5 piuparts recommends no packages. Versions of packages piuparts suggests: ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-9 ii python-rpy 1.0.3-15 -- Configuration Files: /etc/piuparts/piuparts.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
