Bug#187991: bug#1536: mutt-1.5.4i: Segment fault with long lines when LANG=*.UTF-8
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 05:59:24PM +0200, Anders Helmersson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 19:38:11 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > With mutt -F <your colors> -n -f segfault, I can't reproduce this.
> > (Latest CVS checkout; Redhat 7.3.)
>
> The problem seems to be related to regex. The segfault occurs in
> function regexec invoked from line 828 in pager.c with the long line as
> the buf argument.
>
> The buf argument fits just within the 1024 bytes of buf; the last
> element, buf[1023], is "\0".
>
> When I compile the latest CVS checkout with --with-regex the problem
> disappears. Thus, the problem might be in libc.so.6 of my debian
> installation (libc6 2.3.1-16). I have tried to debug the code (without
> --with-regex) both with LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8. I can
> see no difference between the calls of the regexec. However
> LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 produces the segfault, while LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 does
> not.
This might be related to Debian bug #187991 (grep 2.5.1 segfaults in
UTF-8 locale) [1]?
> Anders
cu
Adrian
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/187991
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