Hi Martin, On 2011-05-27 18:15, Martin Dorey wrote: > Package: html2text > Version: 1.3.2a-5 > Severity: normal > > Nowhere in the man page does it suggest that -width -1 is legal, so why am I > using it? > Well, it seemed to work for me in one application, and saved my having to > pick a magic number. > After all, html2text didn't say it was a usage error. > Then came another application and html2text crashed, having produced glibc > heap corruption output. > After reducing the HTML to a minimal file, I see that html2text is trying to > malloc for a width of -1. > On my amd64 system, that's been sign-extended to more memory than I have. > I wonder if html2text should refuse the argument, cap it at a sane value or > just report the malloc failure in a more revealing way. [...]
Thanks for your report. Html2text has no upstream, and a Debian package of it needs new maintainer. It's unlikely that this will be fixed until someone steps up. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
