Bug#565722: texlive-latex-base: After downloading many fonts from a RedHat system, latex, pdflatex, xdvi, and dvipdf all dump core.

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 18.01.10 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
> On Mo, 18 Jan 2010, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > Insufficient error description. Further we don't support every setup.
> > Could you sent us a list, which fonts you installed and how you did
> > it?
> 
> Known bug in fact. The problem was fixed after TL2007 was released,
> long after.
> 
She pointed me already to
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2009-December/002091.html

> I am not sure if we should prepare a stable update for that.
> 
Well, crashes are a very bad things always and one could even argues
that this a security leak.

H.
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