Segmentation fault occurs when running fc-match with '-s' or '-a' option on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 when no fonts are installed.

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Issue

  • Segmentation fault occurs when running fc-match with '-s' or '-a' option on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 even with latest available version fontconfig-2.8.0-5.el6 when no fonts are installed.
  • We are seeing fc-match segfaults every-time we run /usr/bin/redhat-access-insights on our systems running with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Oct 20 04:45:09 fifo.server.intra kernel: fc-match[55624]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000401262 sp 00007ffd37b24e30 error 4 in fc-match[400000+2000]
Oct 21 03:26:07 fifo.server.intra kernel: fc-match[50011]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000401262 sp 00007fff73bda520 error 4 in fc-match[400000+2000]
Oct 23 03:44:05 fifo.server.intra kernel: fc-match[16467]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000401262 sp 00007ffd882bc5a0 error 4 in fc-match[400000+2000]
Oct 24 04:50:07 fifo.server.intra kernel: fc-match[48232]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000401262 sp 00007ffce5e7de00 error 4 in fc-match[400000+2000]
Oct 25 03:06:11 fifo.server.intra kernel: fc-match[41111]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000401262 sp 00007ffc871f3b00 error 4 in fc-match[400000+2000]
Oct 26 03:44:08 fifo.server.intra kernel: fc-match[4010]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000401262 sp 00007ffdb8ad0260 error 4 in fc-match[400000+2000]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL)
  • fontconfig

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