Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 143296
pbmtext segfaults when passed Greek characters as input.
Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:04:38 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: In FC1 and FC2 we've been using pbmtext to generate images with Greek text. Now with FC3, the same command segfaults. This only happens if pbmtext is given Greek characters as input (iso-8859-7 or UTF-8 character sets). It works fine with plain english. For example: $ pbmtext "ole" >text $ pbmtext "ολε" >text Segmentation fault $ The first command has "ole" in iso-8859-1 characters and the second command has them in iso-8859-7 characters. PS: i'm not sure if the Greek characters will be displayed properly in bugzilla. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 10.25-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run pbmtext with Greek as input text. 2. pbmtext segfaults. Actual Results: Segmentation fault Expected Results: output is an image file with the Greek characters. Additional info: This command always worked fine in FC1 and FC2. Also, the output image won't contain proper Greek characters by default because we haven't loaded a Greek font file in bdf format. Though thats irrelevant with this bug.
Hello Dimitris, maybe the problem was in the old libpng where I saw the segfaults, does it work for you if you upgrade to libpng-1.2.8? http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/libpng-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm I'm unable to reproduce this bug any more after the upgrade.
I've contacted the author of the package and here is his reply: "There's a bug in the latest release of Netpbm (10.25) that causes that crash whenever a character of the input text has an ASCII code greater than 127." He also said that version 10.18.17 does not have the bug, and that the next release due out this month (maybe its already out?) will have the bug fixed. I dont think the problem is with libpng. Maybe you updated your netpbm package at some point?
Created attachment 109614 [details] Fixed pbmtext.c without the bug for high ascii characters (file came from the author directly)
Dimitris, yes, I build the netpbm-10.26 recently and it resolves your problem. Please update to it from: http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/netpbm-10.26-1.i386.rpm The pbmtext.c source you attached is identical to the one in this release. Thanks for the bugreport.