[Dnsmasq-discuss] Blockdata SIGSEGV on master

[Simon Kelley]

On 05/09/2023 06:46, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 08:38:00PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> On 01/09/2023 20:28, Dominik Derigs wrote:
>>> Dear Simon, CC mailing list,
>>>
>>> today I've received a report of latest dnsmasq embedded into Pi-hole
>>> crashing when www.facebook.com is visited (but only when logged in). I
>>> was able to reproduce this myself after creating a (fake) account.
>>>
>>> The hit/miss ratio is not 100% but it should be possible to trigger the
>>> crash within a couple of tries. I tried Google Chrome on Linux for
>>> reproducing the crash (the report was Chrome on Windows). For this test,
>>> I used only one upstream server: 8.8.8.8
>>>
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Offline, we've found this one. The patch is in git now. It needs arbitrary
>> RR caching to be enabled, and some fairly bad luck in what actually gets
>> cached, but Facebook obliges every once in a while.
> 
> Is it worth a next release?

Soon. But note that this problem is with new code added since the last 
stable release, so it's not needed to fix the current stable release.

Simon.

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> 
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers