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Subject: Bug#198312 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#198312: long
file name cause Segmentation fault [SECURITY])
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 04:48:11 -0700
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
#198312: long file name cause TeX to segfault,
which was filed against the tetex-bin package.
It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>.
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From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#198312: long file name cause Segmentation fault [SECURITY]
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On 21.06.03 Anthraxz __ (bouloumag@hotmail.com) wrote:
Hi,
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20011202
> Severity: grave
> Tags: woody
>
> pslatex does not handle correctly a long file name. This cause the
program
> to Segfault.
>
> # pslatex `perl -e 'print "ffffffffffffffff"x8086'`
>
> *************************************
> * Using LaTeX, with pslatex package *
> *************************************
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
> /usr/bin/pslatex: line 15: 737 Segmentation fault
>
As sarge is now the stable release I guess, we can close that bug.
Regards,
Hilmar
--
sigmentation fault