Bug 772172 - pr command failed on multibyte test
Summary: pr command failed on multibyte test
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-06 09:39 UTC by Alex Sersen
Modified: 2013-11-01 01:35 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: coreutils-8.4-17.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-06-20 14:34:29 UTC
Target Upstream Version:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
UTF8 file (122.24 KB, application/octet-stream)
2012-01-06 09:41 UTC, Alex Sersen 		no flags Details
proposed fix (4.46 KB, patch)
2012-01-16 14:00 UTC, Kamil Dudka 		ovasik: review+
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0933 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE coreutils bug fix and enhancement update 2012-06-19 20:45:56 UTC

Description Alex Sersen 2012-01-06 09:39:44 UTC 
Description of problem:


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


How reproducible:
easy
pr -c file
pr -v file

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download utf file
2. run `pr -c or -v` on it
3.
  
Actual results:
buffer overflow

Expected results:
no backtrace

Additional info:
# rpm -qa coreutils
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64
# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.1 (Santiago)
Comment 1 Alex Sersen 2012-01-06 09:41:44 UTC 
Created attachment 551116 [details]
UTF8 file
Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2012-01-06 09:42:43 UTC 
Thanks Alex for report - fix will be similar to the yesterday's fix for this issue from Fedora - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2012-January/700258.html .
Comment 4 Ondrej Vasik 2012-01-06 09:45:14 UTC 
Note: this crash does occur only with mutlibyte locales (and is introduced by multibyte patch)
Comment 6 Kamil Dudka 2012-01-16 14:00:31 UTC 
Created attachment 555516 [details]
proposed fix

There were actually three independent bugs in the code.  See the comments inside the patch for details.
Comment 7 Kamil Dudka 2012-01-16 15:05:50 UTC 
The fixes are now included in coreutils-8.15-2.fc17.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 14:34:29 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-2012-0933.html
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