On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 03:22:29AM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.10.4 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > There are at least three cases where dpkg accesses memory just outside > what it has allocated, and one memory leak. I believe the attached patch > fixes these problems (hope it comes through as is, I've had problems > with that before).
I'm not sure if your patch fixes this, but I've noticed the a problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root]# setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libefence.so [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root]# dpkg -l Electric Fence 2.1 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens. Segmentation fault ...You may want to check over there if dpkg is compiled with your patches and is electric-fence is available. Simon- [ Simon Kirby ][ Network Operations ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ NetNation Communications ] [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. ]

