Bug#544682: vim: segfault on reading gzipped file

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

James Vega wrote:
> tag 544682 unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:00:37PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> James Vega wrote:
>>> This worked fine for me when using
>>> /usr/share/doc/vim-common/changelog.Debian.gz as the test file.
>> Yes, this worked for me for many months, for many other compressed files. This
>> is the first time I saw segfault.
> 
> Is it still reproducible for you?  I've tried to reproduce it and
> haven't had any luck.  I get messages about not being able to create the
> tempfile and then I'm presented with the uncompressed file, but no
> crash.
Yes. Here's how I reproduce it:

-8<-
/media/net$ mount | grep smbnetfs
smbnetfs on /media/net type fuse.smbnetfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other)
/media/net$ vim /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV

Vim: Finished.
<many empty lines>
Segmentation fault
->8-

> I tried in a setup where there was no /tmp, $TMPDIR and $HOME were
> unset, and '.' wasn't writable by the user.  Aside from being unable to
> display the uncompressed text, it worked fine.
> 
FTR, In the setup above /tmp, $HOME are set and writeable.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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