Bug 64708

Summary:	fax2tiff seg faults
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Owen Gray <ovgray>
Component:	libtiff	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	rvokal
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Description Owen Gray 2002-05-09 20:31:52 UTC

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Description of problem:
fax2tiff from libtiff 3.5.7 in rh7.3 seg faults when it attempts to convert a 
(any) fax file created by mgetty. 

fax2tiff from libtiff-3.5.4-0.5.2 in rh5.2 has no problem converting the same 
file


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "/usr/bin/fax2tiff [options] faxfile where faxfile is a file created by 
mgetty and [options] are "-s -M -4" or any other legitimate options.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  [root@mail root]# /usr/bin/fax2tiff -s -M -
4  /var/spool/fax/incoming/fncd9d0feS2-416-696-6240.01
Segmentation fault
[root@mail root]# 

no fax.tif file was created

Expected Results:  no seg fault, and fax.tif file should have been created

Additional info:

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-05-14 13:04:01 UTC

Verified. Puzzeling though. Will look into it.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2002-05-15 10:06:47 UTC

Found the problem and fixed it. libtiff-3.5.7-3 has the fix.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 3 Owen Gray 2002-05-20 15:13:02 UTC

Thanks. I picked up the fixed version from rawhide and installed it, and 
fax2tiff is working for me now.