GNU bug report logs - #16586
grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:46:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 2.16

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 16586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16586: grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 15:07:00 -0800

For what it's worth I can't reproduce this bug on Fedora 20 x86-64, even 
with valgrind and/or GCC -faddress=sanitize.  I'm using Fedora 
pcre-8.33-4.fc20.x86_64.
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