severity 216849 normal thanks critical is defined as: makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where you install the package.
Ben Collins writes: > This is a bug in the code. Too much allocation on the stack: > > int read_infos (int socket_data, char **infos) { > int nb; > char datas[SSIZE_MAX]; > > /* SSIZE_MAX = 2147483647 */ > > That's 2 gigs of stack allocation...not likely to happen :) It produces > this overflow of stack in assembly: > > read_infos: > .LLFB46: > .loc 1 197 0 > !#PROLOGUE# 0 > save %sp, --2147483544, %sp > > Notice the double negative, produces by overflowing the stack pointer, > which only uses, internally, a signed int. That is plenty enough to hold > a normal, legal stack, but not really enough for your needs. > > If you need that much (I can't see that you would), then malloc it. > > -- > Debian - http://www.debian.org/ > Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ > Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ > WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]