Bug 591624

Summary: [abrt] crash in ghostscript-8.71-6.fc12: gs_closedevice: Process /usr/bin/gs was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Przemek Klosowski <przemek>
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: jones.peter.busi, twaugh
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Przemek Klosowski 2010-05-12 17:49:11 UTC
abrt 1.0.9 detected a crash.

architecture: i686
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: gs Download/slyt394a.pdf
comment: evince doesn't crash, but doesn't display anything either
component: ghostscript
crash_function: gs_closedevice
executable: /usr/bin/gs
global_uuid: dc98bcbf88fe4f1e2e9302235d10cf391efe4b83
kernel: 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686.PAE
package: ghostscript-8.71-6.fc12
rating: 4
reason: Process /usr/bin/gs was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
release: Fedora release 12 (Constantine)

How to reproduce
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1. retrieve Texas Instruments PDF document http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/led/slyt394a.pdf
2. gs slyt394a.pdf
3. press return to get past the first page which complains about PDF errors (heh, the file was created by Adobe and it still allegedly doesn't follow PDF standards)

Comment 1 Przemek Klosowski 2010-05-12 17:49:12 UTC
Created attachment 413504 [details]
File: backtrace

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2010-05-13 15:58:39 UTC
Confirmed.  This is a regression since 8.70.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2010-05-13 16:09:38 UTC
Reported upstream with patch.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2010-08-20 11:41:04 UTC
*** Bug 625671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 14:05:57 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-15.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-15.fc12

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 14:06:48 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 14:07:51 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-09-03 16:43:50 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 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 ghostscript'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-15.fc14

Comment 9 Przemek Klosowski 2010-09-03 18:24:09 UTC
The good news is that ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13 does not crash, but it goes in an infinite loop on the same file http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/led/slyt394a.pdf

Error: read error: passed the end of the codestream (start = 162502800, current = 162788695, end = 162788695

Error: read error: passed the end of the codestream (start = 162502800, current = 162788695, end = 162788695

Error: read error: passed the end of the codestream (start = 162502800, current = 162788695, end = 162788695

... repeated ad infinitum.

Comment 10 Tim Waugh 2010-09-04 10:55:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-14.fc13

This was submitted in error -- please try ghostscript-8.71-15.fc13 instead.

Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2010-09-13 16:05:30 UTC
Oh dear, ghostscript-8.71-15.fc13 is bad as well.

New package coming up...

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2010-09-13 16:52:05 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2010-09-13 16:55:16 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2010-09-13 16:56:50 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12

Comment 15 Tim Waugh 2010-09-13 17:13:51 UTC
*** Bug 630118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2010-10-11 19:25:21 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2010-10-12 03:13:01 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2010-10-14 23:01:20 UTC
ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.