Bug#1024997: what kind of bug was it?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

On Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:35:06 +0900,
Preuße, Hilmar wrote:
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> On 26.06.2023 08:26, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
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> Hi Junichi,
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> > From my guess it's some kind of buffer management issue; what was the
> > bug and is there a minimal fix ?
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> To be honest: I don't really care. I know the issue is solved in
> texinfo 7.0.x, hence I perform no further investigation. Uploading TI
> 7.0 to unstable however will break a few packages [1], currently I'm
> waiting that at least the new version of octave hits unstable.
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> If you think this could be a security issue, let me know.

As bookworm shipped with this bug which dumps some kind of corrupted
buffer content, I am concerned this can be a security issue.