Crashes with gpg-agent 2.1.18

Justus Winter justus at g10code.com
Wed Jan 25 11:58:31 CET 2017


Patrick Brunschwig <patrick at enigmail.net> writes:

> On 24.01.17 09:14, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>> On 23.01.17 21:20, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> gpg-agent(58725,0x70000f710000) malloc: *** error for object
>> 0x7f99f9703250: pointer being freed was not allocated
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>
>
> Here is how I can reproduce the issue on Mac OS X
> 1. create a small encrypted file (e.g. x.asc)
>
> 2. Make sure gpg-agent currently caches your password
>
> 3. run the following loop:
> for i in $(seq 1 20); do (gpg2 -d x.asc &) ; done
>
> This will crash gpg-agent almost certainly.

Ugh.  I can reproduce this on Linux as well.  I'll look into that.


Justus
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