Segfault in colortail - fixed in newer versions?

[Mike Forbes]

colortail segfaults if it reads a line greater than 1024 characters in length.

This is less than ideal :)

It's fixed in newer versions. Is there any reason this couldn't be moved into lucid?

(from the changelog of the maintainer)
Fixed stupid off by one error in TailFile.cc that caused a segfault if a line in the tailed file was longer that 1024 characters.

see: https://github.com/joakim666/colortail/commit/85af5c4821ff852b36de165a44e181dc3cc5cccd

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
$ dpkg -l|grep colortail
ii colortail 0.3.2-2

3) What you expected to happen
No segfaults :)

4) What happened instead
Segfault!

backtrace and valgrind reports available if required.

(I used cat to pipe a file into logger, then tail -f syslog == boom (segfault))

[Elías Alejandro (ealmdz)]

Dear Mike,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:09:47AM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> 2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
> $ dpkg -l|grep colortail
> ii colortail 0.3.2-2
>
> 3) What you expected to happen
> No segfaults :)
>

check out:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/colortail

at least under Debian:
ii colortail 0.3.3-1

Regards,

--
Elías Alejandro

[Mike Forbes (mike.forbes)]

I expected this and backported 0.3.3-1 into lucid:

(here's my .dsc)

https://launchpad.net/~koordinates/+archive/dev/+files/colortail_0.3.3-1ubuntu1.dsc

I get the same result.

shell1 # colortail -f /var/log/syslog

shell2 # logger < file.with.lots.of.text.on.one.line (1429 bytes)

shell1 #
kernel: [2401351.415188] colortail[8943]: segfault at 7fff153a5004 ip 00007f29570d3b50 sp 00007fff1539e5b8 error 6 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f2957051000+17a000]