Just to confirm that Wolfram's patch works beautifully for me, and
fixes the utter brokenness of xpdf on Ubuntu Precise as well as its
not-so-obvious brokenness on Debian Wheezy. So, many thanks to him
for figuring this one out and fixing it!
Is there any hope of this fix entering Debian Wheezy before it
completely freezes? To reiterate what has been said earlier in the
thread, accessing uninitialized memory has potential security issues,
so this should be treated as more than a simple bugfix. (Also, if
Debian fixes this and Ubuntu copies the fix, a huge number of users
will thank you: see Ubuntu bug 943195.)
In the meantime, if it's of use to anyone, I built some packages of
xpdf ("3.03-10.dmadore") with this fix (as well as that of bug #671765
which is needed to compile on Ubuntu): they are in <URL:
ftp://quatramaran.ens.fr/pub/madore/misc/xpdf-bug658264/
> (compiled versions for i386 and amd64 were done on Debian Wheezy).
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David A. Madore
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