gst-doc crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()

[salva]

Binary package hint: gnu-smalltalk

It seems something is broken in gst-doc command line argument parsing.

TEST CASE
Running any of...
  $ gst-doc -f
  $ gst-doc -p

segfaults

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 7 14:12:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gst-doc
Package: gnu-smalltalk 3.0.3-2
ProcCmdline: gst-doc -p
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fe7754afab7 <vfprintf+15591>: repnz scas %es:(%rdi),%al
 PC (0x7fe7754afab7) ok
 source "%es:(%rdi)" (0x00000070) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnu-smalltalk
StacktraceTop:
 vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
 __vfprintf_chk () from /lib/libc.so.6
 option_error ()
Title: gst-doc crashed with SIGSEGV in vfprintf()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:_IO_vfprintf_internal (s=0x7fff20037a30,
buffered_vfprintf (s=0x7fe7757d0860,
_IO_vfprintf_internal (s=0x7fe7757d0860,
___vfprintf_chk (fp=0x7fe7757d0860, flag=1,
option_error (

[Paolo Bonzini (bonzini)]

Fixed upstream by 8819a0d5

diff --git a/gst-tool.c b/gst-tool.c
index 642cdb7..1d6a464 100644
--- a/gst-tool.c
+++ b/gst-tool.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ parse_short_options (const char *name, const char *arg)
         }

       else /* if (have_arg == OPT_MANDATORY) */
- option_error ("expected argument for option -%s", name[-1]);
+ option_error ("expected argument for option -%c", short_opt);
     }

   return 1;

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Maverick is not affected due to fresh upstream.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Second bug which will be fixed in one upload is: bug 557290

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted gnu-smalltalk into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Test passed fine for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnu-smalltalk - 3.0.3-2ubuntu0.10.04.1

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gnu-smalltalk (3.0.3-2ubuntu0.10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Timothy Bielawa (Shaggy) <email address hidden> ]
  * debian/patches/10_fix_ftbfs_with_bash4.diff:
    - Fix broken test suite causing FTBFS (LP: #557290).

  [ Artur Rona ]
  * debian/patches/11_fix_crash.diff:
    - Fix crash with commands: gst-doc -f or gst-doc -f (LP: #410263).
 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:27:04 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted gnu-smalltalk into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Test passed fine for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnu-smalltalk - 3.0.3-2ubuntu0.9.10.1

---------------
gnu-smalltalk (3.0.3-2ubuntu0.9.10.1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Timothy Bielawa (Shaggy) <email address hidden> ]
  * debian/patches/10_fix_ftbfs_with_bash4.diff:
    - Fix broken test suite causing FTBFS (LP: #557290).

  [ Artur Rona ]
  * debian/patches/11_fix_crash.diff:
    - Fix crash with commands: gst-doc -f or gst-doc -f (LP: #410263).
 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:38:01 +0100