Package: libfile-mimeinfo-perl Version: 0.13-1 Severity: important
When running mimetype on certain files i dies with the current output: -- start output Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 120. -- end output After consulting some other perl users about this as I'm no unicode guy, someone concluded it was related to a known security bug with :utf8. The bug is decribed here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=644786 Personally I do not have the security problem and I've worked arround the problem by catching it with an eval{}. I would like to see it fixed in the long run though if this is possible. Someone also sugested using ":encoding(utf8)" instead of ":utf8" as this would atleast make it 'safe' then (the exploit wouldn't work anymore), but for me this resulted in a list of errors like the following: -- start output utf8 "\xFE" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\xED" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\xFE" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\xED" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\xA4" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\xF5" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\xDC" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\x82" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. utf8 "\x82" does not map to Unicode at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo.pm line 107. -- end output and quite a bit more. Hopefully I've provided you with enough information, if you would like to hear more,or receive a sample file, please let me know. Thanks for your package, Sebastian -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libfile-mimeinfo-perl depends on: ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-0.1 Perl module to use the freedesktop ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-0.1 Perl module to handle freedesktop ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii shared-mime-info 0.22-2 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa libfile-mimeinfo-perl recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
