Re: [SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Jan  3 11:53, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> On 29.12.2016 21:49, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > On 2016-09-30 01:43, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> > > > > > > > Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> > > 
> > >     > Dr. Volker,
> > >     > Several security vulnerabilities have been announced for
> > > libidn, which are fixed
> > >     > in 1.33:
> > > 
> > >     >
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2016-07/msg00009.html
> > > 
> > > Noted (and also your other mails), will work on it as soon as real
> > > work permits.
> > 
> > Ping?
> > 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Just tried packaging libidn-1.33 and found a locale specific error in the
> test suite (Which was working fine with my latest build). When running under
> strace I get:
> [...]
> :   37    4387 [main] test-localename 11148 write: 1 = write(2, 0x1004060B9,
> 1)
> 183   32    4419 [main] test-localename 11148 write: 3 = write(2,
> 0xFFFFC9F1, 3)
> : assertion '   30    4449 [main] test-localename 11148 write: 13 = write(2,
> 0x1004060BC, 13)
> strcmp (name, "fr_FR.UTF-8") == 0   30    4479 [main] test-localename 11148
> write: 33 = write(2, 0x100406168, 33)
> ' failed
> [...]
> 
> The source code can be found in the file (after unpacking of
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.33.tar.gz)
> 
>  o .../libidn-1.33-1.x86_64/src/libidn-1.33/lib/gltests/test-localename.c

Do you have a self-contained testcase, by any chance?


Thanks,
Corinna

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