Bug 242713

Summary: Requesting backport of upstream fix for potential corruption in selectall_arrayref and selectrow_arrayref for compiled drivers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component: perl-DBIAssignee: Stepan Kasal <kasal>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.5CC: perl-maint-list, tao
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0686 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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simplified patch derived from upstream none

Description Martin Poole 2007-06-05 14:37:16 UTC
Description of problem:

Requesting backport of upstream fix for potential corruption in
selectall_arrayref and selectrow_arrayref for compiled drivers

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

perl-DBI-1.40-8

How reproducible:


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Additional info:

Attached patch is relevant portions of upstream changes relevant to the specific
bugs.

http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/modules/dbi/trunk/Driver.xst?view=patch&r1=9454&r2=9453&pathrev=9454
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/modules/dbi/trunk/Driver_xst.h?view=patch&r1=9454&r2=9453&pathrev=9454

Comment 1 Martin Poole 2007-06-05 14:37:18 UTC
Created attachment 156228 [details]
simplified patch derived from upstream

Comment 2 Robin Norwood 2007-06-13 21:27:30 UTC
Hi Martin,

Me again - do we have a reproducer/test case for this issue, so I can verify
what the patch fixes?

Comment 3 Issue Tracker 2007-07-23 13:30:48 UTC
I'm not aware of a reproducer.
There appears to be no corresponding test code either.


Issue escalated to RHEL 4 Base OS by: mpoole.
Internal Status set to 'Waiting on Engineering'

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 issue 122903

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2008-02-01 19:07:09 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-24 19:36:06 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0686.html