debian/patches/40_badboy_segfault.patch

   1 Purpose: Defend against corrupt or invalid scripts living in
   2          /etc/rc[S0-6].d/
   3 Fixes:   #493202
   4 Status:  Acked by upstream.
   5 ---
   6 Index: insserv/insserv.c
   7 ===================================================================
   8 --- insserv.orig/insserv.c      2009-09-26 22:35:39.000000000 +0200
   9 +++ insserv/insserv.c   2009-09-26 22:35:44.000000000 +0200
  10 @@ -1696,6 +1696,11 @@
  11             }
  12
  13             lsb = scan_script_defaults(dfd, d->d_name, override_path, &name, true, ignore);
  14 +           if (!name) {
  15 +               warn("warning: script is corrupt or invalid: %s/%s%s\n", path, rcd, d->d_name);
  16 +               continue;
  17 +           }
  18 +
  19             if (!script_inf.provides || script_inf.provides == empty)
  20                 script_inf.provides = xstrdup(ptr);
  21