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Bug 432347

Summary:	Aspell segfaults on empty file
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Petr Muller <pmuller>
Component:	aspell	Assignee:	Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.1	CC:	llim, ohudlick, ovasik, pkovar, rvokal
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Prior to this update, Aspell terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault if an empty file was checked for spelling. This bug was corrected in this update so that Aspell now works as expected.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2011-10-17 12:59:33 UTC	Type:	---
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Comment 1 Matthew Boyle 2008-04-28 19:50:13 UTC

looks like this has been fixed elsewhere: 

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/2007-08/msg01302.html

the patch to common/convert.cpp fixes the segfault for me (on FC8).

Comment 7 Petr Kovar 2011-10-07 12:17:51 UTC

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Prior to this update, Aspell terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault if an empty file was checked for spelling. This bug was corrected in this update so that Aspell now works as expected.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-10-17 12:59:33 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1372.html