tags 622104 fixed-upstream thanks On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:47:35AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > I'm also affected by this bug. On my system, man-db crashes with a null > pointer dereference processing /usr/share/man/man1/cpp-3.3.1.gz (I still > have the obsolete cpp-3.3 package installed):
Thanks! This plus the information provided by Daniel Serpell was enough to track this down and construct a test case. I've committed a fix and will release 2.6.0.2 shortly. Tue Apr 12 14:03:38 BST 2011 Colin Watson <[email protected]> * src/check_mandirs.c (test_manfile): whatis->whatis may be NULL in the case of an empty page. Guard against this (Debian bug #622104). * src/tests/mandb-5: New file. * src/tests/Makefile.am (ALL_TESTS): Add mandb-5. * NEWS: Document this. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
