Control: forwarded 787690 https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue1996
On Thu 2015-06-04 21:21:58 -0400, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 08:38:27PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> What's particularly weird is that this file doesn't seem to have changed >> since 0.9.2, and i can't seem to reproduce the problem with >> pinentry-gtk-2. What was the last version of pinentry-gtk-2 that you >> used that didn't have this problem? > > I only saw this problem yesterday (local time), as it prevented me from > running git commit -S, so according to dpkg.log that means it first > appeared in 0.9.3-1 or 0.9.3-2 (time in UTC): Yep, i just ran it down to the particular upstream commit that introduced the problem, as noted in the upstream bug above. I'm working on understanding the rationale for that commit, and figuring out why it's causing this behavior. What we're definitely seeing is that the secmem_malloc's memset is clearing the contents of the original buffer. Thanks for your patience as we sort this out, --dkg
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