Bug 458902

Summary:	transmission package includes a program which segfaults
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	transmission	Assignee:	Denis Leroy <denis>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	kevmif
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2008-08-13 02:28:55 UTC

Description of problem:

This package has benc2php.  If you will try to run 'benc2php -h'
or 'benc2php --help' then a response is:

Invalid metadata
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Actually it looks like that passing as an argument mostly anything,
be that a single '-', or some letter of alphabet, has the same effect
as above.  Without any arguments benc2php prints:

Convert bencoded text to serialized php.
Usage: benc2php bencoded-text

which is slightly better but not a good reason for segfaulting
in other circumstances.  This was checked on an x86_64 machine and only
there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
transmission-1.22-1.fc9

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Kevin 2008-08-17 01:03:43 UTC

Your synopsis of the problem is accurate. Basically anything that it can not parse throws a segfault error.

No -h tag exists within the code, therefore it treats it as parseable input and seg faults.

I've lowered the priority and severity of this bug, as the application does work - however it should be modified to throw an actual error and not seg fault when inappropriate input is entered.

Comment 2 Denis Leroy 2008-08-24 12:21:34 UTC

Looks like benc2php is gone in version 1.33. Expect an update soon.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-08-24 14:08:08 UTC

transmission-1.33-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/transmission-1.33-1.fc9

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-09-10 06:49:24 UTC

transmission-1.33-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update transmission'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7546

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-09-25 00:20:54 UTC

transmission-1.33-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.