[Bug 1220013] Re: python-apt can SIGSEGV when encountering Packages stanzas with no Description field (was: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with SIGSEGV in File())

[Julian Andres Klode]

This is fixed.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  python-apt can SIGSEGV when encountering Packages stanzas with no
  Description field (was: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with SIGSEGV
  in File())

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt-xapian-index package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Errors Bucket:
  http://errors.ubuntu.com/bug/1220013

  There are 600+ reports of this on errors.ubuntu.com.

  Something wrong

  ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: apt-xapian-index 0.45ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CrashCounter: 1
  Date: Tue Sep  3 01:23:23 2013
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index --quiet
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/sh
  SegvAnalysis:
   Segfault happened at: 0xb6c9e020:	imul   $0x3c,(%eax),%ebp
   PC (0xb6c9e020) ok
   source "$0x3c" ok
   destination "(%eax)" (0xd7ac1000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
  SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
  Signal: 11SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
  StacktraceTop:
   ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt_pkg.so
   ?? ()
   PyObject_GetAttr ()
   PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
   ?? ()
  Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with SIGSEGV in PyObject_GetAttr()
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-16 (17 days ago)
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