Bug 79312 – media-video/gsubedit buffer overflow in lines longer than 20 chars

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lluís Batlle i Rossell 2005-01-24 04:21:06 UTC]

There is a limit to '20 chars per line' in the code for writting the subtitle. If some line is written with more than 20 chars, appears a problem about "looking for the null string end". So, a lot of strings get rubbish after them.

I'll send a patch for solving that.

[Comment 1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell 2005-01-24 04:24:05 UTC]

Created attachment 49355 [details, diff]
Solves the 20chars long bug.

Copy that file to the "files" directory, and set the 'unpack' function to that,
in the ebuild:
src_unpack() {
    unpack ${A}
    epatch ${FILESDIR}/gsubedit-0.4pre1-bufferlen.patch
    cd ${S}
    epatch ${FILESDIR}/crashes.patch
}

[Comment 2 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-01-27 08:15:30 UTC]

This is not a security issue, right ? Reassigning...

If it's indeed a vulnerability, please reassign to us with a note explaining how this can be exploited...

[Comment 3 Daniel Webert 2005-06-06 06:46:42 UTC]

can we add the patch to close this bug and stablize the pkg ...

[Comment 4 Daniel Webert 2005-08-04 10:27:06 UTC]

can we plz fix this - 6 months old w/ exiting patch

[Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-12-17 17:40:28 UTC]

Applied, thanks.