Bug#291438: marked as forwarded (tetex-bin: dvipdfm segfaults when used with hyperref and hypertex)
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Subject: Re: Bug#291438: tetex-bin: dvipdfm segfaults when used with
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:25:46 +0100
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Dear Mark,
Prabhu Rmachandran, a user of the Debian teTeX package that contains
dvipdfm has reported a segfault in dvipdfm, and also found a fix that
corrects the problem.
The strange thing is that other people were not able to reproduce the
segfault with the same minimal LaTeX or dvi file as Prabhu did. We would
be glad if you could look into this.
Regards, Frank
Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu_r@users.sf.net> wrote:
>
> OK, I've found the bug. Basically, the asn_date function in
> texk/dvipdfm/pdfdoc.c was writing to a string but did not allocate
> enough memory for the string before writing to it. Attached is a
> trivial patch for the file texk/dvipdfm/pdfdoc.c.
>
> With this patch dvipdfm works fine for me and does not segfault
> anymore.
>
> HTH.
> prabhu
>
> --- pdfdoc.c.orig 2005-01-22 16:12:30.000000000 +0530
> +++ pdfdoc.c 2005-01-22 16:12:38.000000000 +0530
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
> #define timezone 0l
> #endif /* TM_GM_TOFF */
> #endif /* HAVE_TIMEZONE */
> - static char date_string[24];
> + static char date_string[32];
> time_t current_time;
> struct tm *bd_time;
> if (debug) {
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Frank K=FCster
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