wvWare assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: wvWare terminated

[Salvatore Vassallo]

Binary package hint: wv

wcWare chrashes unexpectedly

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: wvWare terminated
Date: Wed Aug 26 21:26:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/wvWare
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: wv 1.2.4-2ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: wvWare -1 -x /usr/share/wv/wvText.xml /tmp/tracker.msword_filter.Ly9YEctS1t/tmpfile
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: wv
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 *__GI_raise (sig=6)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:88
 __libc_message (do_abort=2,
 *__GI___fortify_fail (
Title: wvWare assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: wvWare terminated
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Salvatore Vassallo (vassallosalvatore)]

sorry; I mean wvWare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
*__GI_raise (sig=6)
*__GI_abort () at abort.c:88
__libc_message (do_abort=2,
*__GI___fortify_fail (

[Gregor Hlawacek (gregor-hlawacek)]

I am not sure but I think this started after installing tracker

[Aethralis (aethralis)]

I can confirm that this is somehow connected to tracker, as after installing it the crashes (not only vwWare, but also pdf2txt and odf indexer) are happening frequently.

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

Same here - its tracker related.

[spaetz (spaetz)]

One more: Also got this after installing and running tracker

[Slava (dbazim)]

It seems I am afected with this bug. It looks like the bug appears after I change the /tmp folder settings. I added the following line in /etc/fstab
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

Before that the tracker works ok.

After that a got message that the index is corrupted and reindexing was started. But it loops with the corrupted index and reindexing.

[Slava (dbazim)]

The bug seems happens when wvWare process the MSWord docx document.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported