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| author | Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> | 2014-09-02 17:06:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> | 2014-09-02 17:25:35 +0200 |
| commit | 097248092ea4ff4543dfb17deb4e0d31dd697c71 (patch) | |
| tree | e6af763c1fe68a76960c92473a120edc13b101b4 /doc/apt-cache.8.xml | |
| parent | cbcdd3ee9d86379d1b3a44e41ae8b17dc23111d0 (diff) | |
Use heap to allocate PatternMatch to avoid potential stack overflow
When apt-cache search with many args (> 130) is given the allocation
of PatternMatch on the stack may fail resulting in a segmentation
fault. By using the heap the max size is much bigger and we also
get a bad_alloc expection instead of a segfault (which we can catch
*if* this ever becomes a pratical problem). No test for the crash
as its not reproducable with the MALLOC_ settings in framework.
Closes: 759612
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