Segfault in curl_multi_cleanup error() when multi->closure_handle is NULL

Bug #1124508 reported by HsH
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This bug affects 71 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Curl
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Undecided
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curl (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Barry Warsaw
transmission (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Lubuntu 13.04
Transmission 2.76

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: transmission-gtk 2.76-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-6.11-generic 3.8.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.330
Date: Wed Feb 13 20:51:27 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130213)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: transmission-gtk
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis: Skipped: missing required field "Disassembly"
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: transmission
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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HsH (hsh) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 curl_multi_cleanup (multi_handle=multi_handle@entry=0xb310a610) at multi.c:1776
 tr_webThreadFunc (vsession=0xb827d340) at web.c:439
 ThreadFunc (_t=0xb3b015c0) at platform.c:118
 start_thread (arg=0xb3affb40) at pthread_create.c:311
 clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S:131

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Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
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Charles Kerr (charlesk) wrote : Re: Transmission crashes on logout

This is a bug in the curl_multi_cleanup() implementation in the new version of CURL.

Upstream fix: https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/da3fc1ee91de656a30f3a12de394bcba55119872#lib/multi.c

Upstream bug: http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/bugs/1194/

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Transmission crashes on logout
+ Transmission crashes on exit [curl_multi_cleanup error]
Changed in curl (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in transmission (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
tags: added: running-unity
Julian Taylor (jtaylor)
tags: added: patch
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote : Re: Transmission crashes on exit [curl_multi_cleanup error]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1124508

tags: added: iso-testing
tags: added: bugpattern-needed
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Cyberjunky (cyberjunkynl) wrote :

Please fix this for 13.04 release, all projects which use libcurl can/will crash on exit...
Fix is already made upstream...

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ctrl (vlad-z-4096) wrote :

Affects amd64 as well.

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Ian Ross (iankross) wrote :

just loading after a fresh install

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

This is probably what's causing pycurl to crash in LP: #1163609

Changed in curl (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Barry Warsaw (barry)
status: Triaged → In Progress
importance: Medium → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-13.04-beta-1
Barry Warsaw (barry)
summary: - Transmission crashes on exit [curl_multi_cleanup error]
+ Segfault in curl_multi_cleanup error() when multi->closure_handle is
+ NULL
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package curl - 7.29.0-1ubuntu2

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curl (7.29.0-1ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/08_lp1124508.patch: Backport fix for upstream bug 1194,
    segfault in curl_multi_cleanup() when multi->closure_handle is NULL.
    (LP: #1124508)
 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:26:06 -0400

Changed in curl (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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