[ARROW-7734] [C++] Segfault when comparing status with and without detail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.16.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23973
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 01/Feb/20 00:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:55
• Resolved: 03/Feb/20 03:43

Description

I noticed this while working on Flight integration tests. The equality operator for Status doesn't check whether the status detail is nullptr before dereferencing it.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6332