Re: [xml] open libxml2 crash bugs in lxml's bug tracker

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 04:27:42PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:49:13PM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/502959
> >
> > -> segfault when parsing docbook XML with several external entities
> >
> > I haven't managed so far to take a closer look (except for reproducing them
> > with a stock lxml), so I'm dumping them here for now (sorry).
>
>   that is way more complex, I'm still pulling hairs about it :-(
> I can reproduce it if I remove my local docbook catalogs and run
> something like
>
> thinkpad:~/XML/diveintopython-5.4/xml -> ../../xmllint --loaddtd --noout --noent diveintopython.xml
>
>  this has to do with entities using entities and failures among them.
> if there is no failure because the DocBook DTD can be found locally
> it goes through without troubles.

  finally got that one, fairly convoluted, fix is in git
  http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=28f5e1a2d6d9c1742b7daa305501bbe01a5753ab

  thanks for raising the issue ;-)

Daniel

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