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zip fails when filenames contain unicode characters

Bug #2062535 reported by Romwriter
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
zip (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Steps to reproduce: command line
$ touch ä
$ zip x.zip ä

will result in

> *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
>
>
> zip error: Interrupted (aborting)

cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165653

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: zip 3.0-13build1
Uname: Linux 6.8.6-060806-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Apr 19 12:34:09 2024
SourcePackage: zip
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Romwriter (romwriter) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in zip (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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iroli (roland-lezuo) wrote :

makes zip unusable for files containing non-ascii characters (i.e. many other locales)

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Ferdinand Haider (haider) wrote :

Same as Bug #2066991

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in zip (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks, indeed it has issue with encoding, Fedora has a patch for it

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zip/raw/rawhide/f/buffer_overflow.patch

which I confirmed fixes the issue described in the report

Changed in zip (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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