[CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

On 7/26/2011 12:12 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 04:59 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>> Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data.
>> This has been reported upstream:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725798
>
> I dont really see that as a yum issue, the problem is bad metadata in
> rpmforge.
>
> - KB

While the problem is bad metadata, should yum really be left off the 
hook for segfaulting when it gets bad data?  Shouldn't yum catch that 
error with checks, then exit gracefully with an error code?

(If there are already sanity checks, adding one more to catch a null 
pointer being passed would be a natural extension of those checks.)