update-binfmts Segmentation fault

Bug #792601 reported by Emanuel Bronshtein
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
binfmt-support (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
binfmt-support (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: binfmt-support

/usr/sbin/update-binfmts crash with Segmentation fault message when he get non valid input for display parameter (not cli\wine\jar\python2.7)

test case :
emanuel@emanuel-desktop:/tmp$ /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --display sometext
sometext (disabled):
Segmentation fault

under GDB :
Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/update-binfmts...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) r --display some-text
Starting program: /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --display some-text
some-text (disabled):

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0804b961 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in binfmt-support (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package binfmt-support - 2.0.7

---------------
binfmt-support (2.0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix display tests to actually test the output of --display.
  * Upgrade to Gnulib 20110908-stable.
  * Display a useful error message rather than crashing if asked to display
    a non-existent binary format (closes: #643756, LP: #792601).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:38:22 +0100

Changed in binfmt-support (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in binfmt-support (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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