[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#7993: closed (cut segmentation fault with unbounded ranges)

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unbounded ranges)
has caused the GNU bug report #7993,
regarding cut segmentation fault with unbounded ranges
to be marked as done.

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> cut segmentation fault with unbounded ranges
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> Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:20:11 +0000
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US;	rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100826 Thunderbird/3.0.7
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> In coreutils 8.9 (latest), the following commands trigger an invalid
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> cut -c1234567890- --output-d=: foo
> cut -f1234567890- --output-d=: foo
> cut -b1234567890- --output-d=: foo
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> The number 1234567890 is just a random number 'big enough' to make the
> invalid access generate a segmentation fault but the invalid access
> happens for values as low as 8 (valgrind)
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> The problem is that ranges going to end of line (i.e., 'x-') are not
> taken into account when calculating the size of the printable_field
> vector, but their lower bound is used as an index on line 525:
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>   if (output_delimiter_specified
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>       && eol_range_start && !is_printable_field (eol_range_start))
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> Paul
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> Re: bug#7993: Acknowledgement (cut segmentation fault with unbounded	ranges)
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> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:45:36 +0100
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> > Please ignore this. It's a duplicate submission of bug# 7992
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> Ok.  marking it closed.
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