Bug 350972

Summary:	Kate segfault when providing a faulty syntax file
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Brice Maron <merzhin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	crash	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	example of wrong syntax file

Description Brice Maron 2015-08-04 19:29:56 UTC

I was trying to adapt a syntax file and i provided obviously a wrong syntax file, i launched kate, and it segfault



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a faulty  syntax file
2. start kate


Actual Results:  
segfault

Expected Results:  
run :)

Comment 1 Brice Maron 2015-08-04 19:30:35 UTC

Created attachment 93886 [details]
example of wrong syntax file

Comment 2 Dominik Haumann 2016-04-05 20:33:29 UTC

Recursive use of IncludeRules.

We probably should have a guard against this...

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2018-08-15 21:26:51 UTC

We now use syntax-highlighting for that and it has a include/recursion guard for such cases.