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: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 16586 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>, Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: 736919 <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: bug#16586: grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:24:33 -0700

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Santiago wrote:
>> it was a debian-pcre-specific bug.
>
> Thanks, closing the bug upstream.

This bug is still present in upstream libpcre version 8.35.
I wrote a patch for it, posted at http://debbugs.gnu.org/17245#26
and Norihiro forwarded it on to the libpcre bug tracker here:
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 33 days ago.

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