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From:
Arthur Kantor
Date:
June 12, 2008 09:55
Subject:
[perl #55668] 'eval'ing a certain format string segfaults perl
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-18229-1213268284-865.55668-75-0@perl.org
# New Ticket Created by  Arthur Kantor 
# Please include the string:  [perl #55668]
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# <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=55668 >


This is a bug report for perl from kantor@cs.wisc.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.8.


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[Please enter your report here]

The following program segfaults perl:

The error has something to do with escaping the $ sign in \$oSpec).

The test case follows:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $optSpec = [
        ["help|h",
                "",
                "print this help message"],
        ["dataDir|d=s",
                "/cworkspace/ifp-32-2/hasegawa/data/telephone/eng/fisher1",
                "The corpus data dir"]
];

printDocOptions($optSpec);


sub printDocOptions{
        my ($optSpec) = @_;

        print "Options:\n";
        #TODO make the options spec display
        my $maxOptLength=0;
        foreach my $o (@$optSpec){
                $maxOptLength =length($o->[0]) if($maxOptLength < 
length($o->[0])) ;
        }

        my ($oSpec, $oDefault, $oDesc);
        my $format  = "format STDOUT = \n"
                . '  ^' . '<' x $maxOptLength . "\n"
                . '\$oSpec' . "\n"
                . '    ' . ' ' x $maxOptLength . "^*  ~~\n"
                . '\$oDesc' . "\n"
                . ".\n";
        print $format;
        eval $format;
        die $@ if $@;


        foreach my $o (@$optSpec){
                ($oSpec, $oDefault, $oDesc) = @$o;
                write;
        }


        return "";
}



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---
Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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This perlbug was built using Perl v5.8.8 in the Red Hat build system.
It is being executed now by Perl v5.8.8 - Tue Apr 29 02:54:41 EDT 2008.

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.8:

Configured by Red Hat, Inc. at Tue Apr 29 02:54:41 EDT 2008.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen, 
archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen #1 
smp tue feb 19 07:33:17 est 2008 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector 
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic 
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Dversion=5.8.8 -Dmyhostname=localhost 
-Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. 
-Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux 
-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads 
-Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db 
-Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio 
-Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly 
-Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto 
-Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto 
-Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dinc_version_list=5.8.7 
5.8.6 5.8.5 -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin'
    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='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing 
-pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions 
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 
-mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe 
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)', 
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='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.7'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E 
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector 
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic 
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.8:
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
    .

---
Environment for perl v5.8.8:
    HOME=/home/arthur
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    
PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/arthur/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash


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