cupsd crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

[Reinhard Tartler]

Binary package hint: cups

after running for a while, I don't remember doing something specifically.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/cupsd
Package: cups 1.3.8-5ubuntu4
ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/sbin/cupsd (enforce)
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/cupsd
ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: cups
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 vfprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __vsnprintf_chk () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 cupsFilePrintf () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2
 ?? () from /usr/sbin/cupsd
Title: cupsd crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-1-generic i686
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
vfprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
__vsnprintf_chk () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
cupsFilePrintf (fp=0xb8b95988, format=0xb7f4de8a "%s|%s:rm=%s:rp=%s:\n") at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:78
cupsdWritePrintcap () at printers.c:3151

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

There does not appear any evidence of this issue occurring in 12.04 or above.