Re: heap-buffer overflow when searching for regex @\*

2021-10-19 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Op 19-10-2021 om 00:10 schreef Paul Eggert: > Thanks for the bug report. I reproduced the problem with texinfo and installed > the attached Gnulib patch, which fixed things for me with texinfo. I didn't > quite > follow the 'nano' instructions but I hope this fixes the problem there too. Yes,

Re: heap-buffer overflow when searching for regex @\*

2021-10-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for the bug report. I reproduced the problem with texinfo and installed the attached Gnulib patch, which fixed things for me with texinfo. I didn't quite follow the 'nano' instructions but I hope this fixes the problem there too. As this is a glibc bug I filed a bug report there too:

heap-buffer overflow when searching for regex @\*

2021-10-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, When compiling the 'info' program or GNU nano with -fsanitize=address, then searching in either of the programs for the regex "@\*" (without the quotes) causes an abortion in gnulib's re_search_internal() at lib/regexec.c:764. To reproduce, configure texinfo-6.8 with CFLAGS="-g -O0