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and subject line Bug#368793: sysvinit: Overflow caused by strcpy()
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Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1
Severity: important
This what i get when i execute the last command:
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[pseelig]~ > last
Libsafe version 2.0.16
Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary.
Terminating /usr/bin/last.
uid=1000 euid=1000 pid=21707
Call stack:
0xa7ef341c /lib/libsafe.so.2.0.16
0xa7ef3510 /lib/libsafe.so.2.0.16
0x8049613 /usr/bin/last
0xa7f056c3 /lib/ld-2.3.6.so
0xa7f0546b /lib/ld-2.3.6.so
0xa7db9eab /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so
Overflow caused by strcpy()
Sent email to root
Killed
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Thanks, P. *8^)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-14.1 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii libc6 2.3.6-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsepol1 1.12-1 Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-14.1 System-V-like runlevel change mech
sysvinit recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.86.ds1-15
[Paul Seelig]
> The bottom line to resolve this bug is probably to simply replace the
> official deb with a version that has been recompiled with a current gcc
> from the archive.
Well, I just uploaded a new version, and it should be available on the
mirrors tomorrow. I assume this solve the problem and close this bug.
If the problem persist, I suggest you report it against gcc, as the
source of sysvinit seem to be just fine. :)
Friendly,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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