Bug 606870

Summary: [abrt] crash in poppler-utils-0.12.4-2.fc13: ActualText::~ActualText: Process /usr/bin/pdftotext was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component: popplerAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: mkasik, rdieter
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: poppler-0.12.4-3.fc13 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2010-06-22 16:14:19 UTC 
abrt 1.1.1 detected a crash.

architecture: x86_64
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: pdftotext /usr/share/doc/systemtap-1.2/langref.pdf
component: poppler
crash_function: ActualText::~ActualText
executable: /usr/bin/pdftotext
global_uuid: 4e61fb5026e52b01bc46665fee6d3bb561f580b1
kernel: 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64
package: poppler-utils-0.12.4-2.fc13
rating: 4
reason: Process /usr/bin/pdftotext was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

How to reproduce
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1. find a pdf in a non-writeable directory
2. run pdftotext with the full path to that file
3. observe segv instead of -EPERM
Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2010-06-22 16:14:20 UTC 
Created attachment 425994 [details]
File: backtrace
Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2010-06-29 14:08:27 UTC 
Hi,

the problem here is that constructor of TextOutputDev class can return in middle of its execution without initialization of its member "actualText" (and member "text"), which is then used uninitialized.

Thank you for this report

Marek
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-07-19 13:14:54 UTC 
poppler-0.12.4-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/poppler-0.12.4-4.fc12
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-07-19 13:15:49 UTC 
poppler-0.12.4-5.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/poppler-0.12.4-5.fc13
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-07-27 02:46:45 UTC 
poppler-0.12.4-5.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-08-10 21:44:24 UTC 
poppler-0.12.4-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.