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Bug 353835 - Evolution crashes on an email
Evolution crashes on an email
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: High critical
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-01 12:45 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-09-01 12:45:28 UTC 
That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/58365

"....
I was able to find the email that was causing the crash. I've pulled it out of the Inbox file and have taken out the huge To: line and it still causes the crash. To import this into evolution, drag-n-drop seems to work just fine and cause the crash.
...
http://librarian.launchpad.net/4080491/evolution.txt
...

+ Trace 71359

  • #0 strcmp
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #1 efh_format_address
    at em-format-html.c line 1587
  • #2 efh_format_address
    at em-format-html.c line 1543
  • #3 efh_format_header
    at em-format-html.c line 1644
  • #4 efh_format_message
    at em-format-html.c line 1793
  • #5 efh_format_do
    at em-format-html.c line 1227
  • #6 mail_msg_received
    at mail-mt.c line 570 






Comment 1


André Klapper





          2006-09-01 19:16:53 UTC
        



nice trace, thanks! :-)






Comment 2


Christian Kirbach





          2006-09-01 19:36:09 UTC
        



thus confirming






Comment 3


parthasarathi susarla





          2006-11-03 18:08:20 UTC
        



Evo crash cos the 'field' argument in frame #1 is NULL and a strcmp is done on the field - to determine if the address is of type TO/FROM/CC etc.. The field should and will never be NULL. 
Looking at frame #2 from which efh_format_address is called again with the field arguments, atleast in the code there seems to be no way the field argument will ever be NULL.... NOt sure what might be wrong.. Have you tried upgrading or something

** I imported the mail in Evo (using edgy) and it works fine **





+
Trace
    82447






    

  • 
#0
strcmp

    
                from
                /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

    

    • 

  • 
#1
efh_format_address

    
                at em-format-html.c
                  line
                  1587

    

    • 

  • 
#2
efh_format_address

    
                at em-format-html.c
                  line
                  1543

    

    • 

  • 
#3
efh_format_header

    
                at em-format-html.c
                  line
                  1644

    

    • 













Comment 4


Milan Crha





          2007-08-10 09:19:38 UTC
        



It seems to me, it has been fixed on Aug 28 2006:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/trunk/mail/em-format-html.c?r1=32556&r2=32690






Comment 5


Matthew Barnes





          2008-03-11 00:26:46 UTC
        



Bumping version to a stable release.






Comment 6


Akhil Laddha





          2008-07-16 11:08:21 UTC
        



Please reopen the bug if you still see it in current stable 2.22.3, thanks,