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Bug#970878: ghostscript breaks doc-rfc autopkgtest: segmentation fault



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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.


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