To add a bit of background: the IETF (standards body for the Internet) decided to change the format of their newly published standards from ASCII text to XML. From this XML both HTML and PDF versions are generated (and a text version which may omit diagrams / pictures). The PDF version cannot be read on Ubuntu 18.04 with default configuration, because the default document viewer evince crashes when opening the file.
** Summary changed: - evince crashes (segmentation fault) when opening file rfc8655.pdf + evince crashes (segmentation fault) when opening file rfc8655.pdf and other new-format Internet standards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1849888 Title: evince crashes (segmentation fault) when opening file rfc8655.pdf and other new-format Internet standards Status in evince package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When trying to display the PDF file rfc8655.pdf from https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc8655.pdf evince crashes: $ evince rfc8655.pdf Segmentation fault (core dumped) I would have expected the PDF file to be displayed. Instead, evince crashed and did not display the document. The built-in PDF renderer of Firefox 70.0 does display the PDF correctly. Since the segmentation fault hints at a memory management error triggered by external input this may have security implications. I did not investigate this any further. I do not set the "This bug is a security vulnerability" flag because I do not know if it really is (it probably is, but I have no proof) and I do not want this bug report to be private. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Release: 18.04 $ apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 Candidate: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 Version table: *** 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.28.2-1 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages $ evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 3.28.4 $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS" This is a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on x86-64 (the upgrade from 16.04 resulted in a non-booting system). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1849888/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
