Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.1-2 Severity: minor If the mounting point proc has only "x" instear of "rx" for "others", top segfault.
>From a gdb session (on sarge) (gdb) run Starting program: /home/cate/tmp/procps-3.2.1/top Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7f47baa in readproc () from /lib/libproc.so.3.2.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7f47baa in readproc () from /lib/libproc.so.3.2.1 #1 0x0804b8a6 in procs_refresh (table=0x80580f8, flags=73) at top.c:1070 #2 0x0804ee66 in summary_show () at top.c:2867 #3 0x0804fec6 in frame_make () at top.c:3216 #4 0x080501d5 in main (dont_care_argc=1, argv=0x804a280) at top.c:3275 Bug ha priority "minor" because is not common to have such permition of /proc, and the lack of this check (also on other procps programs) should not add security troubles. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.4 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages procps depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]