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: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>
To: 736919 <at> bugs.debian.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 16586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16586: grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:10:29 +0200

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:07:00PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.
> 

Indeed, it was a debian-pcre-specific bug. New pcre package (1:8.31-3)
enables JIT regex compilation and solves the issue.

I'm updating grep's dependencies to close this bug in debian.

Regards,

Santiago
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