The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 402e247056c58a16ec81ca894135dbfcf02575d8
Author: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Mar 20 04:26:26 2008 +0200
Fix crash when a .deb file becomes unreadable while dpkg is starting
Closes: #386210
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fd42230..6e42dbc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-03-20 Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * lib/tarfn.c (TarExtractor): Initialize h.LinkName and h.Name to
+ NULL.
+
2008-03-16 Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* scripts/Dpkg/Shlibs/Objdump.pm: Add "objid" property to
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2202e5c..ffd8240 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ dpkg (1.14.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Thanks to Ian Jackson.
* Allow compilation with --disable-nls on systems without libintl.h where
a non glibc claims to be glibc. Closes: #465420
+ * Fix crash when a .deb file becomes unreadable while dpkg is starting.
+ Thanks to Ian Jackson. Closes: #386210
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Add a warning displayed by dpkg-genchanges if the current version is
diff --git a/lib/tarfn.c b/lib/tarfn.c
index 397fedc..66b33f2 100644
--- a/lib/tarfn.c
+++ b/lib/tarfn.c
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ TarExtractor(
symListBottom = symListPointer = symListTop =
m_malloc(sizeof(symlinkList));
symListTop->next = NULL;
+ h.Name = NULL;
+ h.LinkName = NULL;
h.UserData = userData;
while ( (status = functions->Read(userData, buffer, 512)) == 512 ) {
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