On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:09:54PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:54:01PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Hi Roberto > > > > Could you double-check/confirm if you see the same > > https://bugs.debian.org/840691 in wheezy? Note although the bug is > > still assigned to ghostscript I think the problem uncovered is > > actually in libspectre as noted in the bug log. But I wonder if you > > see the same issues in wheezy now that ghostscript is updated there. > > > Salvatore, > > Here is what I found: > > - On Jessie, evince segfaults on AIM-864.ps with both ghostscript > packages at versions 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u2 and 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3 > (this is clearly different for me than what is in the bug reports) > - On Wheezy, evince renders AIM-864.ps with ghostscript packages at > version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u2, but segfaults with ghostscript packages > at version 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3 > - In all cases, gv renders the document correctly > > I believe that the short answer to your question is, "yes the same issue > occurs in wheezy." > > Do you plan to address this issue, or is there something that I can to > do help speed the process along?
Salvatore mentioned that the same bug occurs when unstable has the security patches merged (which hasn't happened so far :-/), so this needs to be reported upstream. Cheers, Moritz