On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 01:42:38PM +0200, Angel Todorov wrote: > Hello , > > i am using nessus 2.05_1 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, compiled from ports with the stack > protector patched gcc, and i got the following message when executing an assessment > for a host: > > nessusd: stack overflow in function forward > /kernel: pid 3932 (nessusd), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > Is that an issue with the specific version itself, or something "rare" ?
Try the version from CVS and tell us if it occurs again. It seems that one variable in that function was way too big and stackprotectors apparently don't like that.
