Hi stable release managers, Would it be possible to do a stable upload to fix this problem (see below)?
Cheers, Aurelien On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:42:35PM +0200, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.7-18 > Severity: normal > > I've been trying to track down a bug that became apparent when using Tor. > Sometimes, > realloc apparently failed to copy the last few bytes of a buffer over when it > enlarged > said buffer. > > I've done some digging, and came across a bugreport about the issue: > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10018 > > Also, I found a glibc bugreport with an attached patch to > fix the problem, but the patch was rejected by the glibc maintainer: > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5743 > a few months later though, the fix was applied: > http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git?a=commitdiff;h=486bdb886330a250af76cbb12af55d2c67ec0981 > > I checked Lenny's sources, and the offending line in malloc.c is the same as > in > the bugreports above, Squeeze, due to updating to a newer version of libc, > doesn't have it. > > I'm not sure why the test programs referenced don't trigger the bug on Lenny > for me, but when patching the Tor source to manually compare the last few > bytes > of a buffer before it is realloc'ed to afterwards exhibits the issue. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.3 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 > (charmap=ISO-8859-15) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages libc6 depends on: > ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library > > libc6 recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages libc6 suggests: > pn glibc-doc <none> (no description available) > ii libc6-i686 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > [i > ii locales 2.7-18 GNU C Library: National Language > ( > > -- debconf information excluded > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org