[Bug 1914481] Update Released
Chris Halse Rogers
1914481 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Feb 17 01:33:40 UTC 2021
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Title:
use the size of the data when determining the server response
Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in whoopsie source package in Focal:
Fix Committed
Status in whoopsie source package in Groovy:
Fix Released
Status in whoopsie source package in Hirsute:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Note]
This SRU has been built in a security-only PPA and should be released to both -updates and -security.
[Impact]
whoopsie's server_response code is using "g_string_append" instead of "g_string_append_len" which has the knock on effect of sending too much data to its "handle_response". This ends up being a problem if the daisy servers are running on Ubuntu 18.04 instead of Ubuntu 16.04.
Here's an example when using whoopsie on groovy to send a crash to a
bionic daisy server:
[15:35:30] Sent; server replied with: No error
[15:35:30] Response code: 200
[15:35:30] Initial response data is: 2bbb776e-64e6-11eb-a8d6-00163eddedf4 OOPSID
0
[15:35:30] Got command: OOPSID
We can see a fair number of extra characters (\n0\n\n) after the OOSID
command. This becomes more problematic when daisy requests a core dump
from the client as the CORE command won't match and the client will
never send the core dump.
[Test Case]
Setup a Bionic version of the Error Tracker:
0) modify /etc/hosts so daisy.staging.ubuntu.com points to the IP of the apache server for daisy
1) sudo service stop whoopsie
2) sudo CRASH_DB_URL=https://daisy.staging.ubuntu.com whoopsie -f
3) Run test/submit-crash test-crashes/hirsute/amd64/_bin_cat.2001.crash
4) check the whoopsie log file for "Got command: OOPSID" and extra data.
With the version of whoopsie from -proposed this will not happen.
Additionally, a regression test should be run against the staging
version of the error tracker by removing the entry from /etc/hosts for
the daisy.staging server. After confirming that one test crash works
one should also send a python crash, and an end of life release crash
as those all generate different response codes from the server.
[Regression Potential]
The code being changed is clearly wrong and doesn't confirm to the curl API https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.html. Additionallly, this is similar to the code before r707 of daisy which introduced this change so there is little chance of regression. That being said we are running a regression test to ensure whoopsie works with servers running Ubuntu 16.04.
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