CVS parsing breaks when tag contains control character: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

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    • Type: Bug
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • Priority: Low
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      NOTE: This bug report is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

      If a tag name contains a control character like ^M, then JIRA's CVS log parser will break with an error:

      Error occurred while obtaining cvs or parsing the cvs log.
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
        at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1444)
        at
net.sf.statcvs.input.CvsFileBlockParser.parseSymbolicNames(CvsFileBlockP
arser.java:189)
        at
net.sf.statcvs.input.CvsFileBlockParser.parse(CvsFileBlockParser.java:93
)
        at
net.sf.statcvs.input.CvsLogfileParser.parse(CvsLogfileParser.java:84)
        at
com.atlassian.jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl.parseCvsLogs(CvsRep
ositoryUtilImpl.java:153)
        at
com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.vcs.RepositoryActionSupport.testRepo
sitory(RepositoryActionSupport.java:285)
        at
com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.vcs.RepositoryTest.doExecute(Reposit
oryTest.java:68)

      Attached is a sample CVS log which demonstrates this problem.

        1. brokencvslog.txt
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              Reporter:
              Jeff Turner
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