On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:56:21PM +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > Felix Möller wrote: > >Hi, > > > >>I noticed that I am encountering a few "buffer overflows" but I don't see > >>any relevant reports in bugzilla, so it might be something specific to > >>my system. Could someone confirm before I enter a bunch of bugs? > >> > >>The two executables that come to mind, are /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format > >>and /usr/sbin/bacula-fd but I have seen a few others as well... This is > >>on x86_64 with "latest" packages from Factory. > >> > >># dvd+rw-format > >>*** buffer overflow detected ***: dvd+rw-format terminated > >>======= Backtrace: ========= > >I can confirm this on i586. > > Please report all these bugs. They are not specific for your system. > It's an enhanced feature in the latest glibc to report possible buffer > overflows due to "bad coding". More packages could be affected and those > should be found asap.
Yes, the new thing is that the buffer overflow checking we had for C programs now is also applied on C++ programs. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
