block 481071 by 473672 thanks On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:35 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 à 00:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 16:35 +0100, Sam Morris a écrit : > > > The bug can be reproduced with python 2.5 but only on Debian systems--on > > > an Ubuntu 8.04 system the code does not throw an error. Please try the > > > test case attached to the bug and let me know if you see it too. > > > > The pygame code looks buggy to me. len should be a size_t, not an int. > > Which is why it is failing on your amd64 system. > > It will be no surprise to anyone that the patch in Ubuntu [0] that > prevents this from happening was not forwarded to Debian. > > [0] http://patches.ubuntu.com/p/pygame/extracted/01_stack_overwrite.dpatch
To be fair, this is already fixed upstream in pygame 1.8. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078
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