cupsd crashed with SIGSEGV in strcasecmp()

[Reece]

Binary package hint: cups

I see apparently similar crashes in strlen() and memcpy() in Ububtu 8.10. I'm filing this report anyway because it occurs in Jaunty beta.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CupsErrorLog:
 E [31/Mar/2009:21:26:11 -0700] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
 E [31/Mar/2009:21:47:43 -0700] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/cupsd
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Unable to connect to server
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq nw8440 (EY697AA#ABA)
Package: cups 1.3.9-16
Papersize: letter
ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/sbin/cupsd (enforce)
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=05101378-f273-4067-87aa-173e79dadd99 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/cupsd
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.38-generic
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: cups
StacktraceTop:
 strcasecmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/sbin/cupsd
 cupsArrayFind () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2
 ?? () from /usr/sbin/cupsd
 ?? () from /usr/sbin/cupsd
Title: cupsd crashed with SIGSEGV in strcasecmp()
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StacktraceTop:*__GI___strcasecmp (s1=0xb97bfbc0 "tk144115", s2=0x0)
compare_printers (first=0xb97ee3f0, second=0xb97a9ad8,
cupsArrayFind (a=0xb97aa2d8, e=0xb97ee3f0) at array.c:365
cupsdDeletePrinter (p=0xb97ee3f0, update=0)
cupsdDeleteAllPrinters () at printers.c:588

[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.