[Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs indefinitely, appstreamcli using 100% CPU

[vigilian]

vigilian at docker:/tmp/asfix$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
(Lecture de la base de données... 234098 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Dépaquetage de appstream (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) sur (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Préparation du dépaquetage de libappstream3_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Dépaquetage de libappstream3:amd64 (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) sur (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Paramétrage de libappstream3:amd64 (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Paramétrage de appstream (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) ...
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...
vigilian at docker:/tmp/asfix$ sudo appstreamcli refresh --force
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.

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Title:
  Refresh hangs indefinitely, appstreamcli using 100% CPU

Status in appstream package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in appstream source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * The cache refresh is blocked on a strdup on a non-NULL-terminated string in some very rare occasions (very rare because this bug is present for almost 3y without a single report).
   * Fixing this bug resolves the issue for people who might experience it.
   * See https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/35 for details.

  [Test Case 1]

   * Run `sudo appstreamcli refresh --force`
   * The AppStream cache should be updated, no change in behavior should be seen.

  [Test Case 2]

   * In case you were experiencing the almost-infinite hang when running
  `sudo appstreamcli refresh --force`, this issue should be fixed with
  the SRU.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Very low, since this only fixes the decompression code. There
  should be no sideeffects of that (given that the patch itself doesn't
  break anything, which it shouldn't, since it has been tested upstream
  for a while)

  [Other Info]

   * This fix has been applied upstream: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/f33c520c37e2ba51d92402220250b8d501a2bf43
   * A smaller version of the patch (one-liner) is available, at the expense of not having reduced memory usage: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/378941787d3584b3eb31a6ebe40e0aacc10e180a

  ####

  /!\ Installing the bugfix from xenial-proposed, without going through APT:
  To install the fixed packages manually, please execute the following commands (for amd64, adjust URLs for other architectures):

  ```
  cd /tmp && mkdir asfix
  cd asfix
  wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libappstream3_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  sudo dpkg -i libappstream3*.deb
  sudo dpkg -i appstream*.deb
  ```

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