Bug 84661 - core dump in regexec
Summary: core dump in regexec
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-20 04:04 UTC by Ben Fennema
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:00 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-02-20 11:09:26 UTC
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test c file (282 bytes, text/plain)
2003-02-20 04:06 UTC, Ben Fennema 		no flags Details
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Description Ben Fennema 2003-02-20 04:04:46 UTC 
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Description of problem:
A string with a \n causes a coredump in regexec with some patterns.
The same code executes successfully in RH7.3 (a binary built with 8.0 cores on
8.0, and runs on 7.3. a binary built with 7.3 cores on 8.0 and runs on 7.3)

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build testcase.c
2. execute
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ben Fennema 2003-02-20 04:06:10 UTC 
Created attachment 90204 [details]
test c file
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2003-02-20 11:09:26 UTC 
Cannot reproduce this with glibc-2.3.1-50 (in rawhide).
Guess it has been fixed in one of the numerous posix/reg* bugfixes.
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