Same problem for me, it seems, that glipper has a vulnerability when
reading the preferences file.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 47277995377280 (LWP 792)]
0x00002affc00338e9 in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00002affc00338e9 in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002affc001b253 in _IO_getline_info () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00002affc001a109 in fgets () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x0000000000404e48 in readPreferences ()
#4 0x0000000000405e91 in main ()
(gdb)
My .glipper has been created under feisty/i386, migrated to gutsy/i386
and finally I'm using it under gutsy/x86_64.
This is the content of my prefs file:
# hexdump -C ~/.glipper/prefs
00000000 14 00 00 00 23 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |....#...........|
00000010 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0c 00 00 00 3c 43 74 72 |............<Ctr|
00000020 6c 3e 3c 41 6c 74 3e 63 |l><Alt>c|
00000028
... after removing ~/.glipper/prefs and restarting glipper (this time
with no problem), the newly created file looks like:
# hexdump -C ~/.glipper/prefs
00000000 14 00 00 00 23 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |....#...........|
00000010 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 3c 43 74 72 6c 3e 3c 41 6c 74 3e 63 |<Ctrl><Alt>c|
0000002c
ThIt seems to me, that the String "<Ctrl><Alt>c" has been serialized by
writing a little-endian string length in an architecture-specific way:
i386: 0c 00 00 00
x86_64: 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Obviously, the x86_64 version of glipper crashed when deserializing the
prefs file from i386.
This is a real nasty upstream bug, preferences files should not be
architecture-dependent.
text or xml files are very well welcome at this point.
TIA for fixing this one,
Wolfgang
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