[tex-live] crash using bibtex on large .bib files
Akira Kakuto
kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Wed Aug 12 03:07:57 CEST 2009
> I don't see any particular security ramifications here.
> It's not like bibtex is setuid or commonly run by root or anything.
> Do you have something else in mind?
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920
>
> I downloaded
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=29;filename=bibtex-crash.tar.lzma;att=1;bug=520920
> and running bibtex live_fp does reproduce the crash for me.
> I'll see if I can fix it.
Windows version seems to work.
Best,
Akira
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livre_fp.blg
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This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 2009)
The top-level auxiliary file: livre_fp.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_introduction.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_definitions.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_formats.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_smallalgs.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_fma.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_summation.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_languages.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_algorithms.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_hard.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_soft.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_elemfun.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_correctrounding.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_certifying.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_extending.aux
A level-1 auxiliary file: ch_nttools.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Reallocated field_info (elt_size=4) to 14315 items from 5000.
Database file #1: biblio.bib
Reallocated str_pool (elt_size=1) to 130000 items from 65000.
Warning--empty institution in SebGou02
Warning--empty note in Gonnet2002
Warning--empty publisher in Newton1664
Warning--empty institution in SunInterval2002
Warning--empty note in May2008
Warning--empty note in Bernstein2001
You've used 405 entries,
2118 wiz_defined-function locations,
2944 strings with 64900 characters,
and the built_in function-call counts, 133135 in all, are:
= -- 13349
> -- 5418
< -- 147
+ -- 2170
- -- 1706
* -- 8693
:= -- 21790
add.period$ -- 1332
call.type$ -- 405
change.case$ -- 1973
chr.to.int$ -- 0
cite$ -- 411
duplicate$ -- 5537
empty$ -- 11007
format.name$ -- 1706
if$ -- 28578
int.to.chr$ -- 0
int.to.str$ -- 405
missing$ -- 392
newline$ -- 2059
num.names$ -- 903
pop$ -- 2119
preamble$ -- 1
purify$ -- 1614
quote$ -- 0
skip$ -- 3954
stack$ -- 0
substring$ -- 8087
swap$ -- 1385
text.length$ -- 147
text.prefix$ -- 0
top$ -- 0
type$ -- 1515
warning$ -- 6
while$ -- 1351
width$ -- 408
write$ -- 4567
(There were 6 warnings)
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