Bug#968606: CVE assignment request for NULL-dereference segfault

2020-08-19 Thread Bernhard Übelacker
Hello Max, hello Simon, after some sleep I thought why this next variable gets assigned that soon ... so I tested following patch, which just moves the assignment to below the process call, and I could not reproduce the crash in some guake restarts. If this is enough, or if the garbage collector m

Bug#968606: CVE assignment request for NULL-dereference segfault

2020-08-18 Thread Bernhard Übelacker
Hello Max, hello Simon, I thought this issue might be a case for mozilla/rr, a time-travel-debugger. It allows record a process and then replay that process forward and backward inside a debugger. And the segfault was reproducible within rr. Attached file contains some notes about my test environ

Bug#968606: CVE assignment request for NULL-dereference segfault

2020-08-18 Thread ulidtko
Package: vte2.91 Version: 0.60.3-1 X-Debbugs-CC: Sylvestre Ledru X-Debbugs-CC: Pierre-Yves Chibon X-Debbugs-CC: secur...@debian.org Dear Debian Maintainers! I'm a co-maintainer of Guake -- which is a graphical terminal emulator built on top of libvte. Recently, we started receiving an influ