Re: Bug in gethostbyaddr and patch to solve

2014-08-28 Thread Eric Faurot
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:39:59PM -0500, Vladimir Támara Patiño wrote: Using tcpdump in a firewall with 5.5 (also happens with 5.4 and I guess with current) and certain addres of the LAN I got always a segfault. It is a bug within the function gethostbyaddr. It can be reproduced with the

Re: Bug in gethostbyaddr and patch to solve

2014-08-26 Thread Florian Obser
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:39:59PM -0500, Vladimir Támara Patiño wrote: Using tcpdump in a firewall with 5.5 (also happens with 5.4 and I guess with current) and certain addres of the LAN I got always a segfault. Nope, already fixed in the upcomming 5.6 release and -current.

Bug in gethostbyaddr and patch to solve

2014-08-25 Thread Vladimir Támara Patiño
Using tcpdump in a firewall with 5.5 (also happens with 5.4 and I guess with current) and certain addres of the LAN I got always a segfault. It is a bug within the function gethostbyaddr. It can be reproduced with the minimal test program available at: