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Re: solaris 2.6 nroff segfault
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Mon Jul 27 18:56:19 1998
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Jul 1998 18:55:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mike Whitson's message of 07 Jul 1998 02:47:54 -0400
Did anyone ever have a chance to look at this? It's kind of
disturbing. One wonders if there's a potential buffer overrun.
Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Running "nroff -man" over certain manpages under Solaris 2.6 appears
> to cause nroff to segfault. An example of such a manpage is
> /mit/ops/src/cdr/cdrecord-1.4/cdrecord/cdrecord.1. No such segfault
> is observed under Solaris 2.5.1.
> It should be reproducible, but if need be, I can provide a core dump.
-wrong mike
