Bug#665432: gnuplot: using stdin makes gnuplot crash

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Mar 24 03:07:12 UTC 2012


Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.6.0-1
Severity: important

Using stdin (whether the command makes sense or not), which is the
common way to call gnuplot from a script, makes gnuplot crash. For
instance:

$ echo "foo" | gnuplot -
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnuplot depends on:
ii  gnuplot-nox  4.6.0-1
ii  gnuplot-x11  4.6.0-1

gnuplot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnuplot suggests:
ii  gnuplot-doc  4.6.0-1

-- no debconf information





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