file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

[Simon Ellwood]

Binary package hint: file-roller

I was trying to open a zip file and file-roller crashed every time I tried to open the file. I can provide the file if required email me if you want it. It is19.2 MB however I guess is too large to send bye email. I can upload it to an ftp site if you like. I am running Intrepid ubuntu 32bit on a Core2Duo / Intel G45 based system. !

lsb_release -rd :-
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

 apt-cache policy file-roller
file-roller:
  Installed: 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I am not sure which package versions are relevant but i have the following :-
unzip 5.52.11ubuntu1
file-roller 2.24.0-0ubnuntu1

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
Package: file-roller 2.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: file-roller file:///home/username/Desktop/%5BNDS%5DBen_10_Protector_of_Earth%5BEUR%5D%5BESPALNDS.com%5D.zip
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: file-roller
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 qsort_r () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
msort_with_tmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
msort_with_tmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
msort_with_tmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
qsort_r () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

[Simon Ellwood (simonellwood)]

I have now copied the zip file to my wife's Windozes XP machine. It opens fine so the ZIP file does not seem to be corrupt !

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, could you attach the zip file to the report in order to test with it? thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Is this still an issue? the file works fine for me here with Jaunty.

[Simon Ellwood (simonellwood)]

Well I just tried again.

I got the following message :-

7-Zip 4.58 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Igor Pavlov 2008-05-05
p7zip Version 4.58 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Error: /home/simon/DS Roms/[NDS]Ben_10_Protector_of_Earth[EUR][ESPALNDS.com].zip is not supported archive

Errors: 1

This may be down to me installing 7zip support since the last bug report.

I had a problem with another similar zip the other day too.

It is tiresome having to use another pc just to unzip stuff!

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

I hit this crash aswell trying to extract a shady zip file.

Using "7z e filename" on the commandline worked to extract the file.
I believe the issue lies in special characters used in the filename.

Here's a output of "7z l filename":

   Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2008-11-19 03:48:08 D.... 0 0 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]
2008-11-19 03:47:58 ....A 647 367 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]/Leeme.txt
2007-10-16 22:04:02 ....A 31663 31614 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]/The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass.jpg
2007-10-16 14:03:32 ....A 134217728 52971068 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]/The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass.nds
2007-10-14 19:06:54 ..HSA 5632 3353 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]/Thumbs.db
2008-11-16 05:13:10 ....A 177 125 NeoGamersX.CoM Torrents Emule Descargas Estrenos DivX Pelis Musica,Elinks Sexo Series Juegos Ps2 PSP P2P .url
2008-11-16 05:16:30 ....A 128 98 WwW.LimiteTorrents.NeT ÿÿ portal gratis torrrentsÿ estrenos juegos consolas xxx.url
2008-11-16 05:13:10 ....A 177 125 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]/NeoGamersX.CoM Torrents Emule Descargas Estrenos DivX Pelis Musica,Elinks Sexo Series Juegos Ps2 PSP P2P .url
2008-11-16 05:16:30 ....A 128 98 [NDS]The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass [EUR][NeoGamersX.CoM]/WwW.LimiteTorrents.NeT ÿÿ portal gratis torrrentsÿ estrenos juegos consolas xxx.url
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

how do you trigger the crash exactly? could you get a new stracktrace?

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

I opened a zip file downloaded from a torrent site. The content is listed above. I guessed the error was caused of the strange filenames (ending space before the extension, strange characters in filename etc).

I dont think its appropriate to post a direct link?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you add an example to the bug and describe steps to trigger the bug using it?

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

Hello. I made a little test case.
I took the evil zip file, opened with WinRAR in windows and deleted the copyrighted file.

Attached is a 40k zip file without any (i hope) illegal content which still crashes file-roller on my system.

Hope that helps in resolving this issue.

PS. I have trouble attaching the file to the comment, so i placed it here:

http://startwars.org/dump/fileroller-crashing.zip (38kb)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what trouble do you get adding the file to the bug?

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

If i write commein the comment box & also add attachement and submit, all i get is a new page with the same comment/attachment field, url:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/282179/+addcomment

The comment box is filled in with the text i entered in the previous page, but it is not submitted. No error message is displayed.

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

I get the same error with this file (6,9MiB) on Jaunty: http://www.racer-xtreme.com/dl.php?ck=237&url=%5BRX%5DHondaNSX.zip But mounting the file with the "Archive mounter" works fine, also copying files out of the mounted archive.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

I created this bug for upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584718

However i dont understand how to link it to this bug report, if someone could help me with that

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

the bug has been fixed upstream! after less than 1 day since upstream report!

i really realize the importance of getting the bug reports upstream now, thanks Sebastien!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package file-roller - 2.27.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
file-roller (2.27.1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in:
    - updated gtk requirement

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * New upstream version (LP: #387706)
    - New features and user visible changes
      - Added support for lzip compressed archives (#579467)
      - Added support for xz compressed archives (#582237)
    - Bugs fixed:
      - #582712: Opening multipart encrypted .7z files does not work (file-roller-created .7z)
      - #584675: Untracked files on fresh clone
      - #580070: Garbage is displayed when adding a folder
      - #583863: Wrong explanation for the command 'extract-here'.
      - #584810: File-roller uses libsexy
      - #584718: File-roller crashes when opening certain archives with wierd characters in filename (LP: #282179)
      - #581102: build error in copy-n-paste/
      - #578467: Should not use deprecated gtk symbols
      - #503240: File-roller kills the entire session when aborted (LP: #369603)
  * debian/patches: 30_fix_local_include.patch: Fix local include file in distributed file
  * debian/control.in:
  * debian/control:
  * debian/file-roller.mime:
    - Support lzip and xz

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:41:19 +0200