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Bug #1257

Segfault in string handling

Added by bongo almost 11 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Quassel Client
Target version:
-
Start date:
12/20/2013
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Version:
0.9-pre
OS:
Linux

Description

Quasselclient for linux v0.9.1 (Protocol v10) crashed when trying to view a bitlbee jabber channel with very long messages.

Reproduction:
Write a very long message to a buddy on bitlbee. To reproduce the crash, try to open the channel of that buddy.

Output on the commandline (see attached file):

"String too long to be styled: [long $String here]

log.log (274 KB) log.log bongo, 12/20/2013 06:37 PM
crashlog (23.5 KB) crashlog Anonymous, 12/20/2013 09:12 PM

Associated revisions

Revision a6c41972 (diff)
Added by Manuel Nickschas over 10 years ago

Don't crash on very long inputs

Because our style engine uses 16 bit indexes, strings can only be
styled if they're shorter than 2^16 characters. We do check for this
in the style engine and refuse to style strings that are longer.

However, just returning an default-constructed StyledString() is wrong,
because other places rely on there being at least one format and the
plaintext be initialized. So the proper way of handling this is just
using the baseFormat and the full string as plaintext instead of an
empty StyledString.

Fixes #1257.

Revision 05c43ed7 (diff)
Added by Manuel Nickschas over 10 years ago

Don't crash on very long inputs

Because our style engine uses 16 bit indexes, strings can only be
styled if they're shorter than 2^16 characters. We do check for this
in the style engine and refuse to style strings that are longer.

However, just returning an default-constructed StyledString() is wrong,
because other places rely on there being at least one format and the
plaintext be initialized. So the proper way of handling this is just
using the baseFormat and the full string as plaintext instead of an
empty StyledString.

Fixes #1257.

History

#1 Updated by Anonymous almost 11 years ago

  • File crashlog crashlog added
  • Status changed from New to Confirmed
  • Priority changed from High to Normal

Easily reproducable, even by pasting the message in quassel itself (did take a while to crash the first time).

#2 Updated by Anonymous over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset quassel|commit:a6c419727506abd19f41d8de6e02de015a7aa8e5.

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