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and subject line Re: Bug#342480: ircii: /set -irc_encoding segfaults
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regarding ircii: /set -irc_encoding segfaults
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Package: ircii
Version: 20051015-1
Severity: normal
Doing /set -irc_encoding command makes ircii segfault. Also set
-display_encoding and set -input_encoding nukes.
I built a unstripped deb package and used the binary with gdb:
/set -irc_encoding
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0fe5bad4 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0fe5bad4 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1 0x0fe006f0 in iconv_open () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2 0x10046c74 in set_irc_encoding ()
#3 0x1004784c in set_var_value ()
#4 0x10047c3c in set_variable ()
#5 0x100153f4 in parse_command ()
#6 0x1001610c in parse_line ()
#7 0x100162a8 in send_line ()
#8 0x10014b18 in edit_char ()
#9 0x100270d4 in irc_io ()
#10 0x10027c64 in main ()
(gdb)
The bug is in source/translat.c functions set_irc_encoding,
set_display_encoding and set_input_encoding. These functions pass the
NULL 'enc' to iconv_open() that in turn passes the given pointer to
strlen() -> boom.
Fix is simple, add check for NULL string pointer before passing the
argument to iconv_open. Corresponding else-statement should probably NULL
the matching _encoding variable (so user can really disable the
encoding).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-pegasos
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages ircii depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ircii recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: ircii
Source-Version: 20060725-1
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Harry Sintonen wrote:
> Doing /set -irc_encoding command makes ircii segfault. Also set
> -display_encoding and set -input_encoding nukes.
Per upstream:
Changes in ircII 20060725:
o /set translation has been removed. all encoding support now depends
on the existance of iconv(3) support, enhancing the capabilities and
correctness of codeset conversion. the translation and iso2022_support
variables have been replaced with input_encoding, display_encoding
and irc_encoding
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