[R-sig-DB] [PATCH] segfault in RSQLite 0.5-4

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please send a patch to the maintainer, not a discussion list.

The latest version is in fact 0.6-0 in the 2.6.0/Other area of CRAN.


On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Ashish Kulkarni wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I encountered a segfault in RSQLite 0.5-4, it was a null pointer dereference which was introduced in r246. Apparently, under certain conditions sqlite3_column_decltype() returns NULL, which wasn't checked for at all and caused SQLite_decltype_to_type() to segfault. I've attached the patch against 0.5-4.
>
> Regards,
> ashish
>

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