Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.5-1
Severity: serious
procps has the following code in its Makefile:
check_gcc = $(shell if $(CC) $(ALL_CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_CFLAGS) dummy.c
$(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(1) -o /dev/null $(CURSES) > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(1)";
else echo "$(2)"; fi ;)
There is a problem with this code: If run with root privileges
(e.g. by building the package with sudo) and the gcc call fails, gcc
will delete the output file, which is /dev/null.
(The package in incoming has the same code, in case you wonder about the
version number)
It would certainly be better to use a temporary file as destination.
High severity since at least the mips(el) buildds currently use sudo and
were hit by the problem.
Gruesse,
Frank Lichtenheld
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
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