Bug 141824 – crash when processing special characters

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Bug 141824 - crash when processing special characters


Summary:	crash when processing special characters

Attachments
test xml file which crashes the parser (68 bytes, text/xml) 2004-05-04 15:56 UTC, freggy1	Details
c++ source code containing main function (to be called with xml file name as argument) (363 bytes, text/x-c++src) 2004-05-04 15:58 UTC, freggy1	Details
c++ source code containing the sax parser (240 bytes, text/x-c++src) 2004-05-04 15:59 UTC, freggy1	Details
header file for sax parser class (346 bytes, text/x-chdr) 2004-05-04 16:00 UTC, freggy1	Details

Description freggy1 2004-05-04 15:54:54 UTC

libxml++ crashes with the following backtrace when parsing a document which
contains the é character with the sax parser.

#0 ??
#1 ??
#2 ??
#3 ??
#4 raise
from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#5 abort
from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#6 __cxa_call_unexpected
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#7 std::terminate()
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#8 __cxa_throw
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#9 std::__throw_length_error(char const*)
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#10 std::string::_Rep::_S_create(unsigned, std::allocator<char> const&)
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#11 std::string& std::string::_M_replace_safe<char const*>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char*, std::string>, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char*, std::string>, char const*, char const*)
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#12 std::string::string(char const*, unsigned, std::allocator<char> const&)
from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
#13 Glib::ustring::ustring(char const*, unsigned)
from /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#14 xmlpp::SaxParserCallback::characters(void*, unsigned char const*, int)
from /usr/lib/libxml++-2.6.so.1
#15 xmlParseCharDataComplex
from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
#16 ??
#17 ??


I'm attaching a test case.

Comment 1 freggy1 2004-05-04 15:56:05 UTC

Created attachment 27365 [details]
test xml file which crashes the parser

Comment 2 freggy1 2004-05-04 15:58:32 UTC

Created attachment 27366 [details]
c++ source code containing main function (to be called with xml file name as argument)

Comment 3 freggy1 2004-05-04 15:59:29 UTC

Created attachment 27367 [details]
c++ source code containing the sax parser

Comment 4 freggy1 2004-05-04 16:00:14 UTC

Created attachment 27368 [details]
header file for sax parser class