FS#71876 - [ghostscript] Segmentation fault after upgrade to 9.54

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Prof. Jayanth R. Varma (jrvarma) - Friday, 20 August 2021, 11:53 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 06 February 2022, 08:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

In ghostscript 9.54, running gs on certain pdf files causes it to exit with

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The same issue arises when converting to text using the command

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=txtwrite -sOutputFile=-

I have faced this issue only for some files, mainly digitally signed files related to financial transactions.

The problem disappears after downgrading to 9.53.3-3 or earlier version

Also pdftotext from poppler-utils converts the pdf files without any issues.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 06 February 2022, 08:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 15:34 GMT
Please check for known upstream bugs or file one. Prepare to add debugging symbols (see our wiki).

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=fault%20
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 05 February 2022, 17:23 GMT
Any news on this? Version 9.55.0-4 has debug symbols now available.
Comment by Prof. Jayanth R. Varma (jrvarma) - Sunday, 06 February 2022, 04:37 GMT
The problem disappeared on upgrade to 9.55

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