Bug 265683

Summary:	x11-libs/libXfont-1.3.4: crashes the X server with bzip2 support enabled (always on gentoo)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sytse Wielinga <s.b.wielinga>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	please.no.spam.here
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Bugfix for a bug that causes anything using libXfont to crash in some cases

Description Sytse Wielinga 2009-04-10 18:11:19 UTC

The bzip2 patch for libXfont, that was merged after 1.3.3, has a bug that causes it to crash when reading .bdf.gz, .bdf.bz2 or .pmf files. As /usr/bin/X is linked with libXfont, it may crash in some cases.

The developer of the bzip2 patch overlooked it because of the horrific way pmf support was implemented in libXfont; luckily, just after 1.3.4, pmf support was removed, so 1.3.4 is and will be the only version affected.

Attached is a dead simple patch that fixes the problem. In attendance of an upstream patch (I will post the patch upstream too), please release 1.3.4-r1 with this patch, and mask 1.3.4.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sytse Wielinga 2009-04-10 18:13:34 UTC

Created attachment 187908 [details, diff]
Bugfix for a bug that causes anything using libXfont to crash in some cases

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-04-10 23:20:35 UTC

please post your emerge --info too.

Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-19 22:33:40 UTC

I think we can move libXfont 1.4.0 to portage now. I've already backported the necessary patches into 1.5.3-r3 or -r4.

This could be a simpler way out...

@x11, this needs to be checked though, I'll try to get to it in a week or so.

Thanks

Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-29 13:08:41 UTC

libXfont 1.4.0 is now in ~arch, closing.

Thanks