On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:05:34PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > Do you have more data on this crash? There is a known bug which causes
> > libpcap to crash on Linux systems if you specify a local address.
>
> I did some investigations -- yes, machine in question is the only one
> that has /etc/ethers file with one line in it. If I remove this file,
> tcpdump works fine. I looked to source -- it crashes in libc's nss
> stuff trying to resolve all-ones ethernet address. This looks like
> glibc bug/issue, tcpdump's side is ok.
In that case it is another bug. Can you instruct me how to reproduce it?
> > Guy - I think we should pull the fix into 3.6.x and do a new release
> > soon.
>
> I'd say that we should contact glibc's maintainers for this instead of
> "fixing" in the wrong place.
The bug I was mentioning was a real bug in libpcap - not all cases were
checked in a switch expression and the default case lead to a crash.
Greetings
Torsten
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