Public bug reported:
I was trying to use snapcraft to snap flight-of-the-amazon-queen. To my
dismay I found that scummvm crashes on initialization. Some debugging in
gdb lead me to a bug libsdl1.2 in get_progname(). The error case, which
doens't occur outside snappy confinement cause the function to return
null, leading to a crash when the data is subsequently used without
checks.
I've patched the function to return "unknown" (as it does in other
cases) and tested that this works correctly. The debian/patches file
patch is attached. I would like to SRU this fix into xenial given the
high impact of snappy and the negative effect this bug has for each
application using SDL.
[Test Case]
TBD (snapcraft.yaml with flight-of-the-amazon-queen)
[Regression Potential]
None, this fixes a crash that occurs only on snappy. The code in question is
clearly broken, returning NULL from a function that never returns NULL
otherwise.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg1-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed May 4 01:40:40 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-01 (63 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: libsdl1.2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: libsdl1.2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
** Patch added: "Tested fix for the crash"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1577986/+attachment/4654854/+files/dont-crash-on-snappy
** Description changed:
I was trying to use snapcraft to snap flight-of-the-amazon-queen. To my
dismay I found that scummvm crashes on initialization. Some debugging in
gdb lead me to a bug libsdl1.2 in get_progname(). The error case, which
doens't occur outside snappy confinement cause the function to return
null, leading to a crash when the data is subsequently used without
checks.
I've patched the function to return "unknown" (as it does in other
cases) and tested that this works correctly. The debian/patches file
patch is attached. I would like to SRU this fix into xenial given the
high impact of snappy and the negative effect this bug has for each
application using SDL.
+
+ [Test Case]
+ TBD (snapcraft.yaml with flight-of-the-amazon-queen)
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+ None, this fixes a crash that occurs only on snappy. The code in question is
clearly broken, returning NULL from a function that never returns NULL
otherwise.
+
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg1-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed May 4 01:40:40 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-01 (63 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: libsdl1.2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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SDL 1.2 crashes on snappy, breaks scummvm
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