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evince package

Specially crafted postscript file forces a segfault

Bug #1528928 reported by Niles Rogoff on 2015-12-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evince (Ubuntu)	New	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Running `evince temp.ps' causes a segmentation fault. The file was generated by doing `sudo systemd-analyze plot|a2ps > temp.ps'.

Evince version: "GNOME Document Viewer 3.18.2"
Running XFCE 4.12 on Arch

Sorry I can't find any more detailed logs, don't really know what I'm looking for.

I have attached the file temp.ps

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Niles Rogoff (nilesrogoff) wrote on 2015-12-23:

temp.ps Edit (93.3 KiB, application/postscript)

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Niles Rogoff (nilesrogoff) wrote on 2015-12-23:

Ok I tried it a fourth time and this time it opened, but then segfaulted when I tried to resize the window.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-01-05:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Albert Nash (albertnash-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2023-02-06 (last edit on 2023-02-06):

On my machine,

sudo systemd-analyze plot|a2ps > temp.ps

produces

request id is PDF-110 (0 file(s))

in my temp.ps. Do you mean

sudo systemd-analyze plot|a2ps -o temp.ps

sudo systemd-analyze plot|a2ps - > temp.ps

or something else? In the first two cases, please provide us with the permissions of the file generated, i.e., with the output of

ls -la temp.ps

to decide whether this bug is an instance of bug #1910421; cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1910421 . (Personally, I doubt that these two bugs have the same cause, but you never know…)