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and subject line Bug#506701: fixed in acct 6.6.4-10
has caused the Debian Bug report #506701,
regarding acct: should not segfault on gzip files
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Package: acct
Version: 6.4~pre1-3
Tags: upstream
Ideally gzip files would be transparently handled, but at least it
should not crash.
gdb --args ./lastcomm -f /var/log/account/pacct.1.gz
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
pacct_get_entry () at pacct_rd.c:375
375 if (rec_in->ac_version != 0
(gdb) bt
#0 pacct_get_entry () at pacct_rd.c:375
#1 0x00000000004014b9 in parse_entries () at lastcomm.c:320
#2 0x00000000004019da in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff2ceda708) at lastcomm.c:283
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Source: acct
Source-Version: 6.6.4-10
Done: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
acct, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrew Bower <[email protected]> (supplier of updated acct package)
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:05:31 +0100
Source: acct
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6.4-10
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
Closes: 506701 715840 715841
Changes:
acct (6.6.4-10) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* d/patches:
- fix segfault reverse-reading files with incomplete trailing
records (Closes: #506701, #715840, #715841)
- mark cross-compile patch with upstream equivalent as 'forwarded'
* d/control: Suggests: wtmpdb is sufficient (LP: #2125061)
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