Bug 56623 - Reproducable segfault loop
Summary: Reproducable segfault loop
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bzip2
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-22 10:20 UTC by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-22 10:20:32 UTC
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Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-11-22 10:20:26 UTC 
Description of Problem:
bzip2 can be brought into a state where it will cause an infinite loop of 
segfaults (until killed)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0.1-4

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. bzip2 -f /tmp

Actual Results:
Infinite segfault loop

Expected Results:
bzip2: Input file /tmp is not a normal file
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-11-26 19:32:15 UTC 
Fixed in bzip2-1.0.1-5 ("-f" bypassed checks for file being sane, I made it exit
on the file being a directory anyway).
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