Bug#479287: Segmentation fault on startup with bad XML file

[Julien Danjou]

Package: wormux
Version: 0.8beta4-2
Severity: important

Hi,

Here wormux segfaulted on its own.

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/games/wormux 
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
o Reading default config file
o Reading personal config file
o Bind text domain to: /usr/share/locale
o Codeset: UTF-8
o Text domain: wormux
[New Thread 0x2b31a4b78040 (LWP 5014)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x2b31a4b78040 (LWP 5014)]
0x00002b319e715da2 in xmlpp::Node::get_children () from
/usr/lib/libxml++-2.6.so.2
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002b319e715da2 in xmlpp::Node::get_children () from
/usr/lib/libxml++-2.6.so.2
#1  0x00002b319e715e99 in xmlpp::Node::get_children () from
/usr/lib/libxml++-2.6.so.2
#2  0x00000000004f7049 in ?? ()
#3  0x000000000042edc8 in ?? ()
#4  0x0000000000430773 in ?? ()
#5  0x0000000000430c45 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000000004318b5 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000000004723a1 in ?? ()
#8  0x00002b31a01e91c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0x00000000004081b9 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fff0d7528f8 in ?? ()
#11 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Well, after thinking a bit... *smoke on the head*, I knew I already
tried this game long times ago.

I saw that I had a .wormux/config.xml file from 2004 in my home, removed
it, and the game started. :-)

The XML file is joined to reproduce.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wormux depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.7-10             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls       7.18.1-1           Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1               1:4.3.0-4          GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.16.3-2           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a    2.16.2-1           C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.27-1           PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl-gfx1.2-4       2.0.13-4           drawing and graphical effects exte
ii  libsdl-image1.2       1.2.6-3            image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2       1.2.8-3            mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl-net1.2         1.2.7-2            network library for Simple DirectM
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0       2.0.9-1            ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii  libsdl1.2debian       1.2.13-2           Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a    2.0.18-2           type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6            4.3.0-4            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6              2:1.0.3-7          X11 client-side library
ii  libxml++2.6-2         2.22.0-1           A C++ interface to the GNOME XML l
ii  libxml2               2.6.32.dfsg-2      GNOME XML library
ii  wormux-data           0.8beta4-2         data files for the game wormux

wormux recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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