Re: yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

[Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Stephen Harris wrote:

>> I dont really see that as a yum issue, the problem is bad metadata in
>> rpmforge.
>
> A segfault is a bug, even if it's only triggered by bad data :-)

I agree. It should report that the checksum is bad, and skip to the next 
repo.

> (thought: could bad metadata cause an exploitable segfault?)

I hope not! In either case, it is Redhat's issue, not ours, and
the bug should be filed with them.

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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