A recent update to Ekiga has seen unicode characters put in a .xml file that glsa-check cannot parse. This has made glsa-check unusable e.g glsa-check -l [snip] 200502-05 [U] Newspost: Buffer overflow vulnerability ( net-nntp/newspost ) 200703-24 [U] mgv: Stack overflow in included gv code ( app-text/mgv ) 200703-25 [U] Ekiga: Format string vulnerability ( net-im/ekiga ) 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 11: ordinal not in range(128) Ekiga maintainer pls take a look! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. glsa-check -l 2. 3.
Reproduced with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 --- glsa-check -v -l affected Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/glsa-check", line 148, in ? myglsa = Glsa(x, 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 11: ordinal not in range(128)
Actually, apologies to the Ekiga maintainer. The fact that glsa-check terminated at Ekiga threw me. I have investigated further, and the offending xml file is glsa-200703-26.xml which is acutally belongs to sys-apps/file-4.20 The offending item is probably the unicode characters in the name "Jean-S!!bastien Guay-Leroux"
Ekiga is just fine, the next GLSA was messed up. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172955 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172955 ***
