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FS#25465 - [wpa_supplicant] Crashes parsing WPA IE + patch

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mathijs Kwik (bluescreen303) - Monday, 08 August 2011, 22:16 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Saturday, 13 October 2012, 20:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I couldn't get a connection going with networkmanager, it didn't even scan for nearby APs.
So I looked at the syslog and found that wpa_supplicant crashed every few seconds.
So I started wpa_supplicant with -u -d myself to view the debug output.

I saw it got
wpa_parse_wpa_ie_wpa: ie count botch (pairwise), count 0 left 8
process 5326: arguments to dbus_message_new_error() were incorrect, assertion "reply_to != NULL" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1335
This is normally a bug in some applications using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus is not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted


googling for that error, I ended up at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678625
there is patch attached there, which I applied to the pkgbuild in abs.
It applied cleanly, and my problems went away.

Can someone please apply this patch officially?

Thanks,
Mathijs
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Saturday, 13 October 2012, 20:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  This is likely fixed in 1.0, if not, please send a reopen request.

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