Control: tags -1 confirmed Quoting Iustin Pop (2020-10-23 00:02:11) > On 2020-10-10 13:34:16, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > > Dear Maintainer, > > tried to have a look at this one, found the segfault [1], > > and can point to the place where the pointer gets overwritten [2]. > > Unfortunately Valgrind or ASAN gave me not more details. > > Thanks for this information. To me, this is clearly a bug in > ghostscript, which is just incidentally triggered by a PDF shipped by > doc-rfc. It could be just as well a PDF downloaded from the internet > :/ > > As such, I think it is correct that this is a serious bug on > ghostscript, but not in doc-rfc, so I will mark it not found in that > package. > > Of course, I'm biased since I'm the maintainer of doc-rfc, but I think > it's a fair assesment.
For the record it is not a PDF file but a (quite large and allegedly) PostScript file that causes Ghostscript to segfault. I do agree that Ghostscript shouldn't segfault. I am unaware if the Postscript file is flawed, but that would be a different bug. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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