Package: procps
Version: 1:3.3.9-1
Severity: normal

Since 698888 was fixed, to use sysctl --system, a bug in sysctl
makes it that no settings in /etc/sysctl.conf are loaded.

Function PreloadSystem() has this near the end:

        if (stat(DEFAULT_PRELOAD, &ts) < 0 && S_ISREG(ts.st_mode)) {
                if (!Quiet)
                        printf(_("* Applying %s ...\n"), DEFAULT_PRELOAD);
                rc |= Preload(DEFAULT_PRELOAD);
        }

The first comparison is backwards.

This could be grave if admins rely on settings in /etc/sysctl.conf
for security-related issues.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  initscripts   2.88dsf-43
ii  libc6         2.17-97
ii  libncurses5   5.9+20130608-1
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20130608-1
ii  libprocps3    1:3.3.9-1
ii  libtinfo5     5.9+20130608-1
ii  lsb-base      4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii  psmisc  22.20-1

procps suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sysctl.conf changed [not included]


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