WebAuth 4.4.2

When I was testing C code coverage analysis tools using WebAuth, I really should have investigated the segfault that I started getting in the test suite before releasing 4.4.1. But since valgrind didn't report any problems, I thought it was something specific to code coverage.

Nope, uninitialized variable inside the WebKDC code. Which valgrind didn't catch at all for some reason. Now fixed, and I did check for similar issues, but it's sort of disturbing that valgrind completely missed it, particularly for a variable whose address is taken and therefore which I wouldn't think would be optimized away.

Since I hate to release WebAuth to only fix one thing, I also tested out-of-tree builds for the first time in a while and fixed a pile of issues around how the Perl module builds work. There's got to be a better way. Maybe sometime I'll try to come up with some patches to teach Module::Build how to handle VPATH. I also imported some additional Autoconf glue that will hopefully help Hurd builds proceed farther, although I didn't promise anything in NEWS since WebAuth has not yet successfully built on Hurd.

You can get the latest release from the official WebAuth distribution site or from my WebAuth distribution pages.

Posted: 2013-02-05 14:03 — Why no comments?

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