[tin-bugs] Pressing J crashes Fedora v41's tin...

[Ant]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 07:59:25AM +0100, Urs Janßen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 10:36:34PM -0800, Ant wrote:
> > "tin: signal handler caught SIGSEGV signal (11).
> > tin 2.6.3 20231224 ("Banff"): send a DETAILED bug report to tin-bugs at tin.org" :(
> > 
> > Using nntp.earthlink.net usenet server (no SSL).
> > 
> > Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon.
> 
> Thanks for the report, but we need a bit more info to actually spot the
> issue (I suspect a NULL-pointer derefference).
> 
> If tin is buiuld with debugging symbols and not stripped - see output from
> 	file $(which tin)
> - can you run tin from inside gdb, e.g.
> 	gdb $(which tin)
> (gdb) run # whatever cmd.line args you normaly use if any
> 
> provoke the crash via 'J' and then request a backtrace:
> (gdb) bt
> and copy/paste that into a mail?

The server owner is using the binary package from his Fedora's yum. :( FYI if this helps at all:
$ tin -V
Version: tin 2.6.3 release 20231224 ("Banff") Jul 20 2024 00:00:00
Platform:
        OS-Name  = "linux-gnu"
Compiler:
        CC       = "gcc"
        CFLAGS   = "-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -mtls-dialect=gnu2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer"
        CPP      = "gcc -E"
        CPPFLAGS = "-D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED"
Linker and Libraries:
        LD       = "gcc"
        LDFLAGS  = "-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed  -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-package-notes"
        LIBS     = "-lssl -lcrypto -lncursesw -ltinfo  -lpcre2-8 -lgsasl -licuuc"
        TLS      = "OpenSSL 3.2.2 4 Jun 2024"
        PCRE     = "10.44 2024-06-07"
Characteristics:
        -DEBUG +NNTP_ABLE +NNTPS_ABLE -USE_ZLIB -NO_POSTING -BROKEN_LISTGROUP +XHDR_XREF
        -HAVE_FASCIST_NEWSADMIN +ENABLE_IPV6 -HAVE_COREFILE
        -NO_SHELL_ESCAPE -DISABLE_PRINTING -DONT_HAVE_PIPING -NO_ETIQUETTE
        +HAVE_LONG_FILE_NAMES +APPEND_PID -HAVE_MH_MAIL_HANDLING
        +HAVE_ISPELL -HAVE_METAMAIL +HAVE_SUM
        +HAVE_COLOR -HAVE_PGP -HAVE_PGPK +HAVE_GPG
        +MIME_BREAK_LONG_LINES -MIME_STRICT_CHARSET +CHARSET_CONVERSION
        +MULTIBYTE_ABLE -NO_LOCALE +USE_LONG_ARTICLE_NUMBERS
        -USE_CANLOCK -EVIL_INSIDE -FORGERY -TINC_DNS -ENFORCE_RFC1034
        -REQUIRE_BRACKETS_IN_DOMAIN_LITERAL -ALLOW_FWS_IN_NEWSGROUPLIST