Re: [Evolution-hackers] Memory corruption in timezone handling

[Chenthill <pchenthill gmail com>]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 17:57 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag 01 April 2012, um 11:13:00 schrieb Robie Basak:
> > Hi freeassociation-devel,
> > 
> > I think I've tracked down a segfault in evolution to a bug in libical.
> > 
> > In icaltimezone.c:icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone,
> > icalarray_append(builtin_timezones, ...) is called. This can cause
> > icalarray_expand() to be called, moving the entire builtin_timezones
> > array and thus invalidating any previous pointers into the array.
> > [...] 
> 
> A  follow-up on the freeassociation-devel list asks whether Evo/E-D-S
> still use a local fork of libical or whether they're using upstream
> libical. From what the sources and configure.ac tell me, it is the latter.
> 
> I guess we should communicate this to freeassociation-devel?
We moved to upstream libical long time back -
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541209 .

- Chenthill.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 	Christian
> 
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