libldap-ruby has memory corruption errors

[Aprotim Sanyal]

Package: libldap-ruby
Severity: important

libruby-ldap creates LDAP::Mod objects by copying pointers, not strings, which
means that when the original string is garbage collected, the Mod objects are
corrupted.

Attached is a patch that is also being submitted upstream, but as similar bugs
have been reported years ago with no response, not holding out a lot of hope on
timely response.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers dapper-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.5-gg34workstation-mixed64-32
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)