Your message dated Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:18:54 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#1114559: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #844719, regarding Out of bounds read when using a malformated pcap file to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tcptrace Version: 6.6.7-4.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/tcptrace Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? While developing a new fuzzer we discovered this bug. * What outcome did you expect instead? We expected the program not to crash. I'm attaching an input file that triggers this bug. The bug can be triggered on x86_64 as well. Here's a stack trace: """ Ostermann's tcptrace -- version 6.6.7 -- Thu Nov 4, 2004 TCP packet 10: reserved bits are not all zero. Further warnings disabled, use '-w' for more info Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x08058ecc in MemCpy (vp1=0x80caab0, vp2=0x80baab6, n=4294699681) at tcptrace.c:2620 2620 *p1++=*p2++; (gdb) bt #0 0x08058ecc in MemCpy (vp1=0x80caab0, vp2=0x80baab6, n=4294699681) at tcptrace.c:2620 #1 0x080558c4 in callback (user=0x0, phdr=0xbffff1bc, buf=0x80baaa8 "") at tcpdump.c:166 #2 0xb7f4ba18 in pcap_offline_read (p=0x80ba8a0, cnt=1, callback=0x8055850 <callback>, user=0x0) at ./savefile.c:404 #3 0xb7f3c8f6 in pcap_dispatch (p=0x80ba8a0, cnt=1, callback=0x8055850 <callback>, user=0x0) at ./pcap.c:829 #4 0x080556d8 in pread_tcpdump (ptime=0x80a75c8 <current_time>, plen=0xbffff29c, ptlen=0xbffff2a0, pphys=0xbffff298, pphystype=0xbffff294, ppip=0xbffff28c, pplast=0xbffff2a4) at tcpdump.c:247 #5 0x08058098 in ProcessFile (filename=0x80caab0 "E`") at tcptrace.c:966 #6 0x08049fba in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff4f4) at tcptrace.c:785 """ -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tcptrace depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4 ii libpcap0.8 1.6.2-2 Versions of packages tcptrace recommends: ii tcpdump 4.6.2-5+deb8u1 ii xplot-xplot.org 0.90.7.1-2 tcptrace suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
tcptrace-2016-05-18T02-38-38.155527.pcap
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 6.6.7-6+rm Dear submitter, as the package tcptrace has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1114559 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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