Bug 50564 - function wctomb shouldn't crash if wchar passed to it is negative
Summary: function wctomb shouldn't crash if wchar passed to it is negative
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-01 09:38 UTC by hvv
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-04 20:23:36 UTC
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Description hvv 2001-08-01 09:38:23 UTC 
Description of Problem: In a lot of lame code, char (that is signed) is passed directly as argument to wctomb - so it gets negative argument. Glibc shipped with RH7.1 crashes when this happens.


How Reproducible: Try to start gnumeric 0.67 under russian locale or write a small testsuite yourself.


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Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2001-08-07 13:16:39 UTC 
Could reproduce this up to glibc-2.2.3-18, cannot reproduce it with glibc-2.2.4-2.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-04 20:23:36 UTC 
Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Powertools are currently no longer supported by Red
Hat, Inc. In an effort to clean up bugzilla, we are closing all bugs in MODIFIED
state for these products.

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