gdebi crashes if dpkg sends unexpected output in its status-fd

Bug #149755 reported by Michael Vogt
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdebi (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdebi

If dpkg sends unexpected output over its status fd gdebi crashes. This is caused by a off-by-one error in the status parser.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in gdebi:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

gdebi (0.3.2ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * do not crash on reinstall, thanks to Joao Pinto (LP: #123674, #129526)
  * fix off-by-one error when parsing dpkg output (LP: #149755)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:37:32 +0200

Changed in gdebi:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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