Package: dhelp
Version: 0.5.24-0.1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
dhelp_parse can segfault on long lines in some cases. In sid, the
current w3-recs package causes such a segfault in its postinst. The
bug and its fix are trivial; a patch appears below.
As an aside, some of the fields in the database records are much too
small. If they were big enough this wouldn't have happened.
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--- dhelp_parse.c.~1~ 2005-09-04 13:56:59.000000000 -0400
+++ dhelp_parse.c 2007-09-17 21:30:14.000000000 -0400
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
void strdel (char *s)
{
- for ( ; *s!='\n'; s++);
+ for ( ; *s && *s!='\n'; s++);
*s = '\0';
}
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (1001, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.6-cph1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dhelp depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-10 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-8 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages dhelp recommends:
ii amaya [www-browser] 9.54~dfsg.0-1 Web Browser, HTML Editor and Testb
ii epiphany-browser [www-brow 2.18.3-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 2.0.0.6-1 lightweight web browser based on M
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.6-2 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.1-5.1+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
-- debconf information:
* dhelp/www-browser-console: lynx
* dhelp/www-browser-x: mozilla
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