Bug 253896

Summary:	Python-uno bridge breaks in hardened openoffice-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dani Church <dani.church>
Component:	Hardened	Assignee:	The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team <hardened>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	critical	CC:	office
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Dani Church 2009-01-05 19:37:41 UTC

Trying to use the included Python interpreter in app-office/openoffice-bin-3.0.0 to load the Python-uno bridge crashes with a reference to std::bad_alloc.  Disabling mprotect() restrictions fixes the problem.

# /usr/lib/openoffice/program/python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 29 2008, 14:55:12)
[GCC 4.2.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import uno
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  St9bad_alloc
Aborted

# chpax -m /usr/lib/openoffice/basis-link/program/python.bin
# /usr/lib/openoffice/program/python 
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 29 2008, 14:55:12)
[GCC 4.2.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import uno
>>> 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Gordon Malm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-06 00:18:35 UTC

emerge --info please.

Comment 2 Dani Church 2009-01-06 00:27:56 UTC

Created attachment 177528 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 3 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-25 12:34:48 UTC

Anyone tried this recently?

Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-05 19:24:35 UTC

No Feedback, closing