Package: elinks Version: 0.13.2-1+b4 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system X-Debbugs-Cc: user@thishost.mailname
Dear Maintainer, "double free or corruption (fasttop)" in Elinks bookmark manager: writes infinite temporary file Operating system and version: user@debian:~$ uname -a Linux debian 6.1.0-35-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.137-1 (2025-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux Elinks version: user@debian:~$ elinks --version ELinks 0.13.2 Debian package version: $ dpkg -l|grep elinks elinks 0.13.2-1+b4 Symptom: System partition full when saving second bookmark in Elinks due to temporary file filling up partition Error message: "double free or corruption (fasttop) Aborted" Steps to reproduce: Open a shell as a regular user. Verify current disk usage: user@debian:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 392M 476K 392M 1% /run /dev/sda1 9.8G 7.0G 2.4G 75% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm Start elinks with a clean profile user@debian:~$ elinks <enter> press <enter> to discard 'Open URL' dialog press <s> to open bookmark manager press <tab> to navigate to 'Add' press <tab> to navigate to field Name and enter: foo press <tab> to navigate to field Url and enter: http://foo.com press <tab> to navigate to 'OK' and press <enter> press <q> to exit the program intermediate result: bookmark is saved. Start elinks again to add a second bookmark: user@debian:~$ elinks <enter> press <enter> to discard 'Open URL' dialog press <s> to open bookmark manager press <tab> to navigate to 'Add' press <tab> to navigate to field Name and enter: bar press <tab> to navigate to field Url and enter: http://bar.com press <tab> to navigate to 'OK' and press <enter> Expected result: a second bookmark is added and the dialog can be closed Actual result: - the screen becomes unresponsive. - a temporary file is being written to the $HOME/.elinks directory until the partition runs out of space. user@debian:~$ ls -lah .elinks total 2.4G drwx------ 2 user user 4.0K May 30 18:22 . drwx------ 15 user user 4.0K May 27 13:29 .. -rw------- 1 user user 26 May 30 18:21 bookmarks -rw------- 1 user user 2.4G May 30 18:22 bookmarks.tmp_XCwkcT -rw------- 1 user user 0 May 30 18:22 bookmarks.tmp_XyhrXm -rw------- 1 user user 0 Feb 22 00:00 cookies -rw------- 1 user user 1.2K May 30 17:51 elinks.conf -rw------- 1 user user 408 Feb 22 00:00 globhist The screen may become responsive again. When this happens: press <tab> to navigate to 'Close' and press <enter> press <q> to exit the program The following message is printed to the console: double free or corruption (fasttop) Aborted Disk usage at this point: user@debian:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 392M 476K 392M 1% /run /dev/sda1 9.8G 9.3G 0 100% / tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.11 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack'), (100, 'bookworm-backports-staging') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages elinks depends on: ii elinks-data 0.13.2-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-5+b1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10 ii libev4 1:4.33-1 ii libexpat1 2.5.0-1+deb12u1 ii libfsplib0 0.14-5 ii libgcrypt20 1.10.1-3 ii libgnutls30 3.7.9-2+deb12u4 ii libgpm2 1.20.7-10+b1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20.1-2+deb12u3 ii libidn12 1.41-1 ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-9 ii liblzma5 5.4.1-1 ii libperl5.36 5.36.0-7+deb12u2 ii libtinfo6 6.4-4 ii libtre5 0.8.0-7 elinks recommends no packages. Versions of packages elinks suggests: pn elinks-doc <none> -- no debconf information
