Bug#494644: openoffice.org: OpenOffice.org crashes when opening (possibly malformed) documents. Backtrace included

[Rene Engelhard <rene@deian.org>]

severity 494644 important
tag 494644 + confirmed
thanks

Hi,

Brendon Green wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Version: 1:2.4.1-6
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss

No. Just because a simgle documents (which even is guessed to be malfformed)
crashes is *NOT* a grave bug.

> When opening some externally-generated documents, OOo immediately 
> crashes.  The worst part of this is that OOo will try to recover all 
> open documents the next time it starts, including the one that crashed 
> it, resulting in another crash.

Yes, that is worse, but you can select to not recover it..

> These particular documents were generated by Inkscape.  If they are 
> indeed malformed (which seems likely, as they are much smaller than 
> expected), then that is obviously a different bug.  

Yes..

> Ideally, however, the program should not crash no matter how fubared
> the input is.  I would rather see a message informing me that the file
> is unreadable/corrupted than have the app spiral into the crash loop
> described above.
> 
> Attached is a backtrace of the crash, and a tarball of (tiny) sample 
> documents to play with.

OK, I guess I am allowd to give those files also to upstream so that
they can fix it?

That said, I also can reproduce it on the 3.0 release branch of OOo...

Regards,

Rene