[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#509101: Bug#509101: Process crush when using gethostbyname_r in several threads

[Oleg Malashenko]

Hello Christian,

It seems that with your packages all is OK.
(5 minute test run goes OK, while with 3.2.5-1 it crushes during first
15 seconds)

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Oleg Malashenko (Oleg.Malashenko at ovsoft.ru):
>   
>> Package: winbind
>> Version: 2:3.2.5-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> When using libnss_wins.so backend for name resolving, process crushes  
>> when gethostbyname_r is called simultaneously in several threads. Simple  
>> test is attached.
>>
>> Sometimes it crush with 'glibc double free detected', sometimes with SIGSEGV
>>     
>
>
> Could you try reproducing this with the (unofficial) 3.2.6 packages we
> provide on http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org/packages?
>
> These are packaged identically to 3.2.5 but we won't upload them to
> Debian unstable because of the freeze for preparation of lenny.
>
> That would help figuring out whether this bug still exists in
> upstream's 3.2.6 or not...