GNU bug report logs - #1380
23.0.60; file content causes CVS emacs to crash

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:40:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 1371

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: tzz <at> lifelogs.com, 1380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1380: 23.0.60; file content causes CVS emacs to crash
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:25:07 +0900

In article <87myfuhmrk.fsf <at> cyd.mit.edu>, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

> > The file content in a file causes Emacs to crash as soon as it's
> > opened.  Tested with "emacs -q file".

> Looks like the charbuf in the coding structure is overflowing.  The
> following rough patch prevents this overflow and the crash, but maybe
> there is a deeper bug.  The comments in coding.c:6610 says "We are sure
> that the number of data is less than the size of coding->charbuf."  This
> bug comes about due to that faile assumption.

> Handa-san, what do you think?

I found that it's a bug in detect/decode_coding_iso_2022,
and just installed a fix.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> ni.aist.go.jp
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