On 23.03.09 Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.org) wrote: Hi Vincent,
> Package: texlive-base-bin > Version: 2007.dfsg.2-5 > Severity: grave > Tags: security > Justification: user security hole > > (Note: I suppose that there's some memory corruption, that can lead > to security problems, hence the severity.) > > I've got the following error with bibtex (someone else here > mentioned the same problem on a different machine, but on the same > set of files, possibly a slightly different version). Unfortenately > I don't have a simple testcase (I'll try to make one, but this may > be difficult), and the files are private. > I can reproduce the problem using bibtex. Then I tried bibtex8 and could generate a livre_fp.bbl file (blg file is attached). Do you still assume it an "user security hole", which justifies the severity "grave" or can you accept the work around and hence a lower severity? H. -- sigmentation fault
This is 8-bit Big BibTeX version 0.99c Implementation: C for Unix Release version: 3.71 (31 May 2005) The 8-bit codepage and sorting file: 88591lat.csf The top-level auxiliary file: livre_fp.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_introduction.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_definitions.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_formats.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_smallalgs.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_fma.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_summation.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_languages.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_algorithms.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_hard.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_soft.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_elemfun.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_correctrounding.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_certifying.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_extending.aux A level-1 auxilliary file: ch_nttools.aux The style file: plain.bst Database file #1: biblio.bib Warning--empty institution in SebGou02 Warning--empty note in Gonnet2002 Warning--empty publisher in Newton1664 Warning--empty institution in SunInterval2002 Warning--empty note in May2008 Warning--empty note in Bernstein2001 Here's how much of BibTeX's memory you used: Cites: 405 out of 750 Fields: 5394 out of 17250 Hash table: 3854 out of 5000 Strings: 2942 out of 4000 String pool: 64883 out of 65530 Wizard functions: 2118 out of 3000 (There were 6 warnings)
