[SECURITY] libidn - locale specific error in test suite

[Dr. Volker Zell]

On 09.01.2017 15:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan  3 11:53, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> On 29.12.2016 21:49, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> On 2016-09-30 01:43, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
>>>>
>>>>     > Dr. Volker,
>>>>     > Several security vulnerabilities have been announced for
>>>> libidn, which are fixed
>>>>     > in 1.33:
>>>>
>>>>     >
>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2016-07/msg00009.html
>>>>
>>>> Noted (and also your other mails), will work on it as soon as real
>>>> work permits.
>>>
>>> Ping?
>>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Just tried packaging libidn-1.33 and found a locale specific error in the
>> test suite (Which was working fine with my latest build). When running under
>> strace I get:
>> [...]
>> :   37    4387 [main] test-localename 11148 write: 1 = write(2, 0x1004060B9,
>> 1)
>> 183   32    4419 [main] test-localename 11148 write: 3 = write(2,
>> 0xFFFFC9F1, 3)
>> : assertion '   30    4449 [main] test-localename 11148 write: 13 = write(2,
>> 0x1004060BC, 13)
>> strcmp (name, "fr_FR.UTF-8") == 0   30    4479 [main] test-localename 11148
>> write: 33 = write(2, 0x100406168, 33)
>> ' failed
>> [...]
>>
>> The source code can be found in the file (after unpacking of
>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.33.tar.gz)
>>
>>  o .../libidn-1.33-1.x86_64/src/libidn-1.33/lib/gltests/test-localename.c
>
> Do you have a self-contained testcase, by any chance?

No, just the testcase from the testsuite in libidn.

Ciao
   Volker