Re: HTML parser sometimes doesn't close script tags in libxml2 2.9.8

On 22/01/2019 15:43, Tomi Belan via xml wrote:
> After a lot of debugging, I determined the problem is in libxml2 and not the 
> other libraries in my stack, and that it only seems to happen on version 
> 2.9.8. But I don't see any related changes in news.html for 2.9.9, nor in the 
> diff between them, so I am still worried: I don't know if the bug is really 
> fixed, or just dormant. I hope you can find the root cause, and maybe add a 
> regression test if you do.

I also don't see any directly related changes in either 2.9.8 or 2.9.9.

> This will download 
> the manylinux binary build of lxml 4.2.5, which is statically linked to 
> libxml2 2.9.8.

Are you sure that a pristine 2.9.8 build was used? Maybe there are additional 
patches added by a distro?

> I couldn't shorten the file very much, because if I delete even a single 
> character, the bug stops triggering. (Could it be some buffer boundary issue?) 

Yes, a buffer boundary issue seems likely.

> I also built my own lxml 4.2.5 with libxml2 2.9.9 and it was not affected. So 
> I believe this is a bug in libxml2 2.9.8 specifically, and not in a particular 
> version of lxml.

Did you also try your own build with the official libxml2 2.9.8 sources?

> I hope you can solve the mystery. Please let me know if I can be of any help. 

It would help if you could reproduce the issue with xmllint and no Python code 
involved. git-bisect might also be useful.

Nick