I have not enough data to answer that question. Feeding a core dump into apport-unpack can let it crash (user error). I don't know if *all* of those crashes were caused by users feeding a crash file into apport- unpack. The crash reports on errors.ubuntu.com do not contain the input file and I haven't seen a bug report where a malformed crash report was attached.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1996040 Title: apport-unpack cannot load gitkraken crash report - 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 56 Status in Apport: Fix Released Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apport source package in Kinetic: Incomplete Bug description: Impact ====== apport-unpack and whoopsie-upload-all can crash when fed with a malformed problem report. They should print a proper error message instead of crashing. This bug does not happen that often, but the fix for this bug is the foundation for the fix for bug #1995100. Test Plan ========= 1. Create malformed report: ``` printf 'AB\xfc:CD\n' > malformed.crash ``` 2. Try to unpack it: ``` apport-unpack malformed.crash unpack ``` It should print an error message instead of a stack trace. Where problems could occur ========================== The patch touches the problem report handling and therefore can affect apport-unpack, apport-bug, whoopsie-upload-all. The change is covered with tests and apport has a test suite running during build and as autopkgtest. Original report =============== The latest GitKraken client (8.10.2 x64) is crashed every minute in cycle when you doing a rebase. When I try to inspect crash log to find the reason, the apport-unpack is not be able to process it: /var/lib/apport/coredump$ sudo apport-unpack core._snap_gitkraken_199_usr_share_gitkraken_gitkraken.1000.5de91c04-23ab-45c8-933c-0466d56e9fad.135785.50225891 unpack [sudo] пароль для mingun: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apport-unpack", line 59, in <module> pr.load(f, binary=False) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 194, in load key = key.decode('ASCII') UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 56: ordinal not in range(128) Unfortunately, crash file is too big (~9GB) and does not compress further To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1996040/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp