pdftk Segmentation fault

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jun 29 20:33:54 GMT 2005


On Jun 29, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Patrick Dung wrote:
> I cannot figure out what's wrong from the core dump file.
> Maybe you can try to compile the latest pdftk (it's 1.12) from ports
> and try. (A compiled pdftk 1.12 from FreeBSD 5.4 may or may not  
> work in
> FreeBSD 5.3, but it's worth a try).

Looks like the bug stomped on the stack and overwrote it with  
garbage.  Tends to happen if something slips off the end of  
automaticly allocated array, or something screws up using alloca().

-- 
-Chuck



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