Your message dated Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:24:53 +1100
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and subject line Re: finger: segfaults on invocation for the user
has caused the Debian Bug report #410691,
regarding finger: segfaults on invocation for the user
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Package: finger
Version: 0.17-10
Severity: important
$> finger pascale
finger: /dev//pts/67: No such file or directory
Login: pascale Name: XXXX XXXXXXXXXXX
Directory: /home/neurosci/pascale Shell: /bin/bash
Office: XXXX
Segmentation fault
valgrinding finger brings lots of worrisome messages:
==25768== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==25768== Invalid read of size 8
==25768== Address 0x4D5D370 is 16 bytes inside a block of size 23 alloc'd
and others totals to
==25768==
==25768== ERROR SUMMARY: 31 errors from 19 contexts (suppressed: 9 from 1)
==25768== malloc/free: in use at exit: 1,431 bytes in 12 blocks.
==25768== malloc/free: 695 allocs, 683 frees, 1,189,738 bytes allocated.
==25768== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==25768== searching for pointers to 12 not-freed blocks.
==25768== checked 210,312 bytes.
I am not quite sure if they are security related but I guess they easily
might be, thus severity is important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages finger depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
finger recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 0.17-12
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:05:24AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>well... for me it doesn't crash any longer as well (with version 0.17-12
>as in lenny) -- feel free to close
Closing 410691 accordingly.
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