194356 – glsa-200709-18.xml contains invalid chars

Bug 194356 - glsa-200709-18.xml contains invalid chars

Summary: glsa-200709-18.xml contains invalid chars

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	GLSA Errors (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Depends on:	162493
Blocks:
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Reported:	2007-10-01 08:59 UTC by boozo
Modified:	2007-10-02 20:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description boozo 2007-10-01 08:59:30 UTC

hi,

the glsa-200709-18.xml contains UTF-8 chars, which crashes glsa-check -l 'new'

200709-16 [U] Lighttpd: Buffer overflow ( www-servers/lighttpd )
200709-17 [U] teTeX: Multiple buffer overflows ( app-text/tetex )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/glsa-check", line 206, in ?
    sys.exit(summarylist(glsalist))
  File "/usr/bin/glsa-check", line 172, in summarylist
    myglsa = Glsa(myid, glsaconfig)
  File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 414, in __init__
    self.read()
  File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 432, in read
    self.parse(urllib.urlopen(myurl))
  File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 470, in parse
    self.description = getText(myroot.getElementsByTagName("description")[0], format="xml")
  File "/usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/glsa.py", line 233, in getText
    return str(rValue)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 544: ordinal not in range(128)

Removing the char "é" in a name in description fixed it for me
(/usr/portage/metadata/glsa/glsa-200709-18.xml
line 40 :
>/usr/sbin/sendmail (CVE-2007-4538), and FrÃ©dÃ©ric Buclin discovered
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `CVE-2007-4538')

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge --sync
2.glsa-check -l 'new'
3.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-01 09:11:10 UTC

We *really* should get Bug 162493 fixed.

Comment 2 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-02 20:21:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> We *really* should get Bug 162493 fixed.
> 

Yeah :/

for the moment I just fixed this glsa.