Re: [xml] an xpath segfault reproducible with xmllint

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Pavol Rusnak wrote:
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> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Can you make sure no patch was applied on SuSE rpms, I doubt it but
> > that may happen. Maybe someone from SuSe is monitoting that list and
> > can
> > act on this problem (thanks in advance !)
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> Hello Petr and Daniel!
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> I'm maintainer of libxml2 in SuSE. Our libxml2-2.6.27 has 4 patches, I'm
> attaching relevant one (null-retval.patch). This was a patch for older
> bug I reported earlier: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400242
> - - and was fixed in CVS by William M. Brac.

I can reproduce the problem, under Valgrind, using the released version
of libxml2-2.6.27.  However, for me, it is fixed in SVN HEAD by a change
to xpath.c committed on Feb 13 (SVN revision 3584).  Could you please try
the latest SVN and confirm that it fixes it for you as well?

Thanks,

Bill