From: Matthew Fernandez Subject: gvc: detect plugin installation failure and display an error References: bsc#1219491 Patch-Mainline: 10.0.1 Git-commit: a95f977f5d809915ec4b14836d2b5b7f5e74881e Git-repo: git@gitlab.com:graphviz/graphviz.git.git Gitlab: fixes #2441 Reported-by: GJDuck A malformed config6 file that leads to plugin search failing no longer causes out-of-bounds memory reads. This now causes an error message and graceful failure. #2441 Signed-off-by: Index: graphviz-2.49.3/lib/gvc/gvconfig.c =================================================================== --- graphviz-2.49.3.orig/lib/gvc/gvconfig.c +++ graphviz-2.49.3/lib/gvc/gvconfig.c @@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ static int gvconfig_plugin_install_from_ do { api = token(&nest, &s); gv_api = gvplugin_api(api); + if (gv_api == (api_t)-1) { + agerr(AGERR, "config error: %s %s not found\n", path, api); + return 0; + } do { if (nest == 2) { type = token(&nest, &s);