Bug#658113: glib/gio/gsettingsbackend: segfault in g_settings_backend()

Andrew Shadura bugzilla at tut.by
Thu Apr 3 07:53:10 UTC 2014


Hello,

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 08:43:11 +0100
Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 at 13:46:26 +0100, Andrew O. Shadura wrote:
> > g_settings_backend() doesn't check if backend is non-NULL before
> > dereferencing the pointer.

> If some application is crashing because of this, then that's either a
> bug in that application, or in some library that it uses (perhaps
> another part of GLib). Do you have a backtrace for this, or a way to
> reproduce it?

If you responded in a week or in a month, I probably would, but not now,
two years later :(

Checking my two years old outbox, probably that was related to
gnome-tweak-tool misbehaving (see my post in #640467).

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew
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