dvdauthor crashes when dvd output path contains more than 177 characters

[kit]

Binary package hint: dvdauthor

Karmic, dvdauthor v0.6.14

dvdauthor crashes immediately after it creates the directory and AUDIO_TS/VIDEO_TS subdirectories.
No files are created in these subdirectories.
Underlying filesystem is EXT4.

kit@desktop:~$ dvdauthor -t -o *[any path containing more than 177 characters]* any.mpg
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
Send bugs to <email address hidden>

INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing any.mpg...
*** buffer overflow detected ***: dvdauthor terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fe24962e647]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fe24962d5f0]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fe24962ca59]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x98)[0x7fe2495ab448]
/lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x5a5)[0x7fe24957c345]
/lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x99)[0x7fe24962caf9]
/lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x7f)[0x7fe24962ca3f]
dvdauthor[0x40e584]
dvdauthor[0x404633]
dvdauthor[0x413e03]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7fe249555abd]
dvdauthor[0x401c99]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0041e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1302 /usr/bin/dvdauthor
0061d000-0061e000 r--p 0001d000 08:03 1302 /usr/bin/dvdauthor
0061e000-0061f000 rw-p 0001e000 08:03 1302 /usr/bin/dvdauthor
0061f000-00656000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
0244f000-02470000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
7fe248c81000-7fe248c97000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 807 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fe248c97000-7fe248e96000 ---p 00016000 08:03 807 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fe248e96000-7fe248e97000 r--p 00015000 08:03 807 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fe248e97000-7fe248e98000 rw-p 00016000 08:03 807 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fe248e98000-7fe248f1a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1634 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7fe248f1a000-7fe24911a000 ---p 00082000 08:03 1634 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7fe24911a000-7fe24911b000 r--p 00082000 08:03 1634 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7fe24911b000-7fe24911c000 rw-p 00083000 08:03 1634 /lib/libm-2.10.1.so
7fe24911c000-7fe249132000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1829 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
7fe249132000-7fe249331000 ---p 00016000 08:03 1829 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
7fe249331000-7fe249332000 r--p 00015000 08:03 1829 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
7fe249332000-7fe249333000 rw-p 00016000 08:03 1829 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
7fe249333000-7fe249335000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1633 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7fe249335000-7fe249535000 ---p 00002000 08:03 1633 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7fe249535000-7fe249536000 r--p 00002000 08:03 1633 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7fe249536000-7fe249537000 rw-p 00003000 08:03 1633 /lib/libdl-2.10.1.so
7fe249537000-7fe24969d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1629 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7fe24969d000-7fe24989c000 ---p 00166000 08:03 1629 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7fe24989c000-7fe2498a0000 r--p 00165000 08:03 1629 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7fe2498a0000-7fe2498a1000 rw-p 00169000 08:03 1629 /lib/libc-2.10.1.so
7fe2498a1000-7fe2498a6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fe2498a6000-7fe2499ec000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 6926 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.5
7fe2499ec000-7fe249beb000 ---p 00146000 08:03 6926 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.5
7fe249beb000-7fe249bf3000 r--p 00145000 08:03 6926 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.5
7fe249bf3000-7fe249bf5000 rw-p 0014d000 08:03 6926 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.5
7fe249bf5000-7fe249bf6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fe249bf6000-7fe249c15000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1626 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
7fe249df2000-7fe249df5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fe249e10000-7fe249e14000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fe249e14000-7fe249e15000 r--p 0001e000 08:03 1626 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
7fe249e15000-7fe249e16000 rw-p 0001f000 08:03 1626 /lib/ld-2.10.1.so
7fff965bd000-7fff965d2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
7fff965ff000-7fff96600000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
Aborted

If I delete one character from the output path, the conversion begins and completes normally.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Maverick Meerkat.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages