| Subject: | Text::BibTeX::Entry->new(undef) produces internal error |
% perl -MText::BibTeX -le 'Text::BibTeX::Entry->new(undef)'
internal error: attempt to free unallocated (or already freed) lexical
buffer
A simple patch is attached.
% perl -MText::BibTeX -le 'print Text::BibTeX->VERSION'
0.37
% perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.6.15.7, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
uname='linux palmer 2.6.15.7 #1 smp thu sep 7 19:42:20 utc 2006 i686
gnulinux '
config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN
-Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i486-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr
-Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8
-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5
-Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local
-Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8
-Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1
-Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl
-Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio
-Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 -Dd_dosuid -des'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O2',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
4.2.2-3ubuntu4)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
libc=/lib/libc-2.6.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true,
libperl=libperl.so.5.8.8
gnulibc_version='2.6.1'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_ITHREADS
USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
Built under linux
Compiled at Nov 27 2007 10:44:36
@INC:
/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.8
/usr/share/perl/5.8
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
.
| Subject: | Entry.pm.patch |
--- Entry.pm.old 2008-10-08 12:30:40.000000000 +0200
+++ Entry.pm.new 2008-10-08 12:31:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@
bless $self, $structure->entry_class;
}
}
- elsif (@source == 2 && ! ref $source[0] && fileno ($source[1]))
+ elsif (@source == 2 && defined $source[0] && ! ref $source[0] && fileno ($source[1]))
{ $status = $self->parse ($source[0], $source[1]) }
- elsif (@source == 1 && ! ref $source[0])
+ elsif (@source == 1 && defined $source[0] && ! ref $source[0])
{ $status = $self->parse_s ($source[0]) }
else
{ croak "new: source argument must be either a Text::BibTeX::File " .