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Bug 711804 - gdbusconnection: Fix invalid memory access
gdbusconnection: Fix invalid memory access
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 745745
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gdbus
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks: 711799
 
 
Reported: 2013-11-10 21:12 UTC by Stef Walter
Modified: 2017-10-26 10:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
gdbusconnection: Fix invalid memory access (993 bytes, patch)
2013-11-10 21:12 UTC, Stef Walter 		none Details | Review

Description Stef Walter 2013-11-10 21:12:27 UTC 
Discovered during gcleanup work. Possible crasher in right conditions.
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2013-11-10 21:12:31 UTC 
Created attachment 259489 [details] [review]
gdbusconnection: Fix invalid memory access

Occurs when the string is zero length.
Comment 2 Philip Withnall 2017-10-26 10:36:44 UTC 
And indeed, this did cause a crash 2 years later. Fixed in bug #745745. Sad that we didn’t push this patch earlier.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 745745 ***