[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #3680: Scheduler crashes when installing printer with malformed PPD file

Andrey Mahalkin andrey.mahalkin at gmail.com
Mon Sep 20 00:33:33 PDT 2010


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[STR New]

Adding a printer with a mailformed PPD file (an example is attached) may
crash the cupsd. Moreover, cupsd fails to restart after the crash (crashes
again).

Probably, cupsd should check PPD files on printer add.

Example of malformed incorrect PPD file is attached.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3680
Version: 1.4.3
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