NetBSD Problem Report #49464

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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:45:54 +0100 (CET)
From: he@uninett.no
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Subject: mandoc can abort on certain (third-party old-style) man page inputs
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>Number:         49464
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       mandoc can abort on certain (third-party old-style) man page inputs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 11 13:50:00 +0000 2014
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 08 01:00:55 +0000 2022
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 08 01:00:55 +0000 2022
>Originator:     Havard Eidnes
>Release:        NetBSD 6.1.4_PATCH
>Organization:
	UNINETT AS
>Environment:
System: NetBSD floke.uninett.no 6.1.4_PATCH NetBSD 6.1.4_PATCH (GENERIC) #1: Sun Jun 29 13:59:55 CEST 2014  he@floke.uninett.no:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	I'm packaging up zabbix 2.4.2 (so far in pkgsrc-wip, yet to be
	committed at this stage).  It has a man page, zabbix_agentd,
	where when it's installed, "man zabbix_agentd" yeilds an empty
	man page and an error message which says

floke: {17} man zabbix_agentd
man: Formatting manual page...
assertion "MAN_BLOCK == p->parent->type" failed: file "/usr/src/external/bsd/mdocml/lib/libmandoc/../../dist/man.c", line 212, function "man_node_append"
[1]   Abort trap              /usr/bin/mandoc ...
floke: {18} 

	Doing the more traditional

	% nroff -mandoc <manpage> | less -s

	gives a perfectly readable man page.

	I would therefore characterize this as "lack of robustness".

	Likewise, makemandb crashes if such a man page is installed.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Try to view this manpage, here compressed and uuencoded:

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end

>Fix:
	Sorry, don't know.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/49464: mandoc can abort on certain (third-party old-style) man page inputs
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:25:28 -0500

 On Dec 11,  1:50pm, he@uninett.no (he@uninett.no) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/49464: mandoc can abort on certain (third-party old-style) ma

 | >Number:         49464
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       mandoc can abort on certain (third-party old-style) man page inputs
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 11 13:50:00 +0000 2014
 | >Originator:     Havard Eidnes
 | >Release:        NetBSD 6.1.4_PATCH
 | >Organization:
 | 	UNINETT AS
 | >Environment:
 | System: NetBSD floke.uninett.no 6.1.4_PATCH NetBSD 6.1.4_PATCH (GENERIC) #1: Sun Jun 29 13:59:55 CEST 2014  he@floke.uninett.no:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
 | Architecture: i386
 | Machine: i386
 | >Description:
 | 	I'm packaging up zabbix 2.4.2 (so far in pkgsrc-wip, yet to be
 | 	committed at this stage).  It has a man page, zabbix_agentd,
 | 	where when it's installed, "man zabbix_agentd" yeilds an empty
 | 	man page and an error message which says
 | 

 This has been fixed in HEAD.

 christos

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: gutteridge@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:00:55 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
This was reported against 6.x, and was fixed in higher releases.

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