Ghostscript crashes opening corrupted pdf

Bug #1132803 reported by Tobias Ratschkowski
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ghostscript (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

If ghostscript opens a corrupted pdf file, it will produce endless syslog entrys:

file has unbalanced q/q operators (too many q's)

Ghostscript never stop writing to syslog, until harddisk is full.

This bug can be fixed by following this diff:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a56f4eb5a9f15795725374b297edab0fb8ebc5d

My System is: Ubuntu 12.04.2 Server 64-Bit
Ghostscript Version: 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2

Could you please apply this diff?

Tags: ghostscript
David Watne (dwatne10)
tags: added: ghostscript
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ghostscript (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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