Re: [Tools-discuss] RFC PDF crashes viewer

[Erik Auerswald <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

while MuPDF can open and display the file, it produces many instances of
two  messages (one error, one warning):

    $ mupdf rfc8798.pdf
    error: Unable to read ICC workflow
    warning: Attempt to read Output Intent failed
    [...]

For every page, a new burst of several instances of the above two messages
is printed.

Firefox displays the PDF file.

The GNOME Document Viewer (evince) crashes.

There are other PDF renderings of RFCs that crash evince, e.g., RFCs 8651
to 8655.  Those produce the same messages with MuPDF as RFC 8798, but MuPDF
does display them.  Both Firefox's and Chrome's built-in PDF viewers can
display those PDF renderings of RFCs.

I agree with Carsten that this is a bug in evince, but evince works fine
for most PDF files out there, including many that Firefox cannot display
correctly.  Since MuPDF produces error and warning messages, and evince
crashes, it seems to me as if it were likely that the PDF versions of
recent RFCs do have issues.

Thanks,
Erik

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:02:20PM -0400, Russ Housley wrote:
> I just opened that file with three different viewers.  They all worked.
> 
> Russ
> 
> 
> > On Jun 26, 2020, at 11:44 AM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> 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.
> > 
> > Grüße, Carsten