Searching keyserver with string containing dots causes parsing error
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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seahorse (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Using seahorse function "Remote" > "Find Remote Keys" and typing in a name that contains dots results in very strange output. Where the names are usually display is a mess of characters as if the same position was drawn multiple times with different chars. Instead of the e-mail address there is what seems to be code. Unfortunately I closed seahorse and I didn't take a screenshot, key servers are currently giving me internal server errors (hopefully this issue didn't occur on the server side).
One possible string that seem to trigger the bug is "S.H.I.E.L.D."
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ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-19 (88 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
Package: seahorse 3.18.0-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
Tags: xenial
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-58-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
tags: | added: apport-collected xenial |
description: | updated |
It might be that these entries are deliberately malformed, but seahorse also doesn't display them appropriately.