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Re: [Tools-discuss] RFC PDF crashes viewer

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Sat, 27 June 2020 03:31 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>, tools-discuss@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] RFC PDF crashes viewer
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Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote:
    > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:44:35PM +0200, Carsten Bormann wrote:
    >> This is undoubtedly a bug in the viewer, but I have received a report
    >> the PDF viewer evince (tested with versions 3.30.2 and 3.36.5, i.e.,
    >> newer than CVE-2019-1010006) crashes when trying to view:
    >>
    >> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8798.pdf
    >>
    >> I have no further data at this time.

    > I can confirm this for evince in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with current updates:

and for evince GNOME Document Viewer 3.30.2 for me.
on Devuan Beowulf (same as Debian Bullseye) on amd64.
Chrome's built-in viewer did not crash.

    > CVE-2019-1010006 should be fixed there, too, see:
    > https://usn.ubuntu.com/4067-1/

Thanks.

    > There were more PDF renderings of RFCs evince could not handle (or rather
    > cannot handle since) then, e.g. RFC 8650 and RFC 8651:

    > $ evince rfc8650.pdf
    > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
    > $ evince rfc8651.pdf
    > Segmentation fault (core dumped)

:-(

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