GNU bug report logs - #2370
23.0.90; decode-coding-region make emacs crash

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Hiroshi Fujishima <h-fujishima <at> sakura.ad.jp>

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:45:03 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 2370 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: h-fujishima <at> sakura.ad.jp, 2370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; decode-coding-region make emacs crash
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:06:34 -0500

Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org> writes:

> I found two bugs related to this problem, and just installed
> a fix for one of them.  Now the above specific problem
> should be fixed.  I'll keep on workning to fix the other bug
> to make the decoding more robust.

Thanks.  I think decode_coding should also verify the size of the
unprocessed bytes before writing them to coding->carrover.  This way,
future bugs of this sort will not cause memory corruption (which might
be a security concern).  What's your opinion?
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