severity 174027 critical thanks (I'm upping the severity, as this definitely fits the description of "making unrelated software break")
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:58:50PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:02:45PM -0600, FireEgl wrote: > > The problem still exists in 2.3.1-7. > > I can't reproduce it - Can you try to debug it a bit? Same here, both with -6 and -7, -5 is fine. PIII 450. Running lynx in gdb, with libc6-dbg -7 installed (and LD_LIBRARY_PATH set): (gdb) run http://bugs.debian.org/libc6 (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000 in ?? () #1 0x401fdfa8 in gaih_inet (name=0x8176138 "bugs.debian.org", service=0xbfffe7bc, req=0xbfffe7c8, pai=0xbfffe7b8) at ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:573 #2 0x401feaed in *__GI_getaddrinfo (name=0x8176138 "bugs.debian.org", service=0x400 <Address 0x400 out of bounds>, hints=0xbfffe7c8, pai=0xbfffe7b8) at ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:880 #3 0x080d5aff in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #4 0x080d5c9d in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #5 0x080c885a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #6 0x080c77c3 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #7 0x080c7b8d in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #8 0x080c806e in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #9 0x08067a55 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #10 0x08074419 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #11 0x0806a329 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 #12 0x401629f1 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8068cf8 <strcpy+121136>, argc=2, ubp_av=0xbfffe7e8, init=0x804a710 <_init>, fini=0x80f9450 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x8176138, stack_end=0x400) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:147 (gdb) Apt-get fails, straw fails, I suppose others too but I caught it immediately after upgrading to -6 yesterday so I downgraded and didn't try others. Oh, reportbug just failed, too (I forgot to downgrade again after the above gdb run) Regards, Filip -- "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." -- Benjamin Franklin
