Package: mdetect
Version: 0.5.2.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

I have a serial mouse connected to /dev/ttyS0.  Running mdetect -vvv
causes a SEGV.  The following patch fixes the problem

--- mice.c.orig 2005-10-28 14:02:36.000000000 +0100
+++ mice.c      2009-09-01 11:34:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@
 
        if (n && opt_verbose > 2) {
                printf("Read %d chars from %s: ", n, dev->name);
-               for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
-                       printf(isprint(buffer[j])? "%c" : "\\%03o",
-                               (unsigned char) buffer[j]);
+               if (buffer)
+                       for (j = 0; j < n; j++)
+                               printf(isprint(buffer[j])? "%c" : "\\%03o",
+                                       (unsigned char) buffer[j]);
                printf("\n");
        }
 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mdetect depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

mdetect recommends no packages.

mdetect suggests no packages.

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