Newsboat locks up on a single item in a feed

[Raf Czlonka]

Hi all,

Newsboat 2.15 (OpenBSD-current package) locks up on a single item[0]
in NetBSD's blog "roll"[1]. As soon as I try opening the entry in
newsboat, its CPU usage balloons up consumes all available CPU time,
it locks up hard and I have to kill it.

I've tested newsboat 2.17 on macOS 10.14 and got a malloc-related
crash first time I tried, but am unable to reproduce it now.

I wanted to check if anyone else can reproduce this with the same
version on another OS, or on any newer version.

[0] https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_2019_report_adding_netbsd1
[1] https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/feed/entries/atom

Regards,

Raf

[Alexander Batischev]

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Hi! Thank you for the report.

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 01:41:05PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:
>Newsboat 2.15 (OpenBSD-current package) locks up on a single item[0]
>in NetBSD's blog "roll"[1]. As soon as I try opening the entry in
>newsboat, its CPU usage balloons up consumes all available CPU time,
>it locks up hard and I have to kill it.
>
>I've tested newsboat 2.17 on macOS 10.14 and got a malloc-related
>crash first time I tried, but am unable to reproduce it now.

Yeah, that's been reported a few days ago on the issue tracker:
https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/659 Affects even the most
recent release, and master branch.

Not sure why it hangs instead of crashing, but if it's indeed a memory
corruption bug (as AddressSanitizer claims), I'm not too surprised.

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Regards,
Alexander Batischev

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