Bug#715611: [Mayhem] Bug report on aajm: aajm crashes with exit status 139

[Helmut Grohne]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed upstream
Control: forwarded -1 http://icculus.org/pipermail/jugglemaster/2013-July/000117.html

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:19:54AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert wrote:
> [1] http://www.forallsecure.com/bug-reports/e4969ef9717548310e44a97ea017b2c03e124bdd/full_report

Quoting the analysis forwarded to jugglemaster upstream:
> The crashing invocation can be reduced to "aajm -s -". The -s option is
> to specify a pattern and - is an invalid pattern. In fact any invalid
> pattern will do. It is passed to jmlib which then calls the error
> handler provided by aajm. The error handler in turn prints the error
> using aalib. Unfortunately aalib is not yet initialized at the time
> arguments are parsed. Boom.

I think that this is best addressed upstream, because a fix requires
reworking the interaction between jmlib and aalib.

Helmut