Nico Golde a écrit : > Hi, > http://bugs.debian.org/420012 is currently twisting my head. > > http://people.debian.org/~nion/nb-bt-full-complete.txt shows > that this is no bug in the newsbeuter package. I don't > really understand why the encoding variable is out of bounds > and didn't find out with a quick look into libmrss code. > > What makes me wonder is that a recompile solves the issue. > The bug doesn't appear with version 2.3.6... of glibc but > with the new version in unstable 2.5. > > If the recompile solves the issue I am curious how this is > a bug in libmrss or newsbeuter since the mrss version didn't > change. > > Is it possible that it's a bug in libc? > Any help is appreciated since I don't know how to do further > debugging here. > > To reproduce this bug install newsbeuter (with 2.3.6.ds1-13 > of libc6 installed), echo > "http://synflood.at/blog/index.php?/feeds/index.rss2";>~/.newsbeuter/urls, > start newsbeuter, press R to reload. This will work without > any problem. Then update to 2.5-3 of libc6, start > newsbeuter, press R and see it crashing :)
I am not able to reproduce the problem the way you described. Starting from lenny where newsbeuter works, upgrading to libc6 2.5-3 does not trigger the bug. Then upgrading to libmrss0 0.17.1-1 triggers the bug. My guess is that the bug is in libmrss0. Anyway segfaults in strlen() are always due to a problem in the pointer passed to the function. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
