@Seb - so there is an autorun.inf in the original tarball which can be used (I will attach it separately here as well) - and this reproduces the crash for me - I just copied it to a FAT formatted USB drive, plugged it in and then in dmesg:
[ 40.361136] gvfs-udisks2-vo[1563]: segfault at 7f3c60a485e0 ip 00007f3c6099ef86 sp 00007ffe34884e10 error 4 in libpcre.so.3.13.3[7f3c60983000+70000] [ 51.023933] gvfs-udisks2-vo[1805]: segfault at 7fb5ef2205e0 ip 00007fb5ef176f86 sp 00007fff3e059160 error 4 in libpcre.so.3.13.3[7fb5ef15b000+70000] And eventually apport popped up as well (gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor crashed with SIGSEGV in pcre_exec()). ** Attachment added: "autorun.inf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1798725/+attachment/5212446/+files/autorun.inf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798725 Title: gvfs may crash when parsing non-valid UTF8 in autorun.inf Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: * Impact gvfs can be made to segfault by being provided an invalid autorun.inf * Test Case Use the proof of concept from bellow to generate an invalid autorun.inf and place it on an usb drive, connect the drive to the computer, gvfs shouldn't hit a segfault * Regression potential Check that the autorun feature keeps working ----------------------- Reported upstream at https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2330 - libpcre3 can be made to crash when matching the pattern \s*= when the context is n\xff= Able to reproduce on current Bionic using the PoC attached (which is copied directly from the upstream bug report) - in a fresh Bionic VM: $ sudo apt install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev $ cd PCRE_PoC $ ./compilePoC.sh $ ./PoC Content: ------------------- n�= ------------------- Pattern: ------------------- \s*= --------------------- Segmentation fault (core dumped) Haven't yet tested the second PoC via an external disk autorun.inf and gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor. Also haven't tested in Cosmic / older releases To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1798725/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp