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possible bug in locate


From: Tom Fischer <tfischer () abh de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:20:19 +0200

Hi,

The GNU locate (version 4.1) crashes with Segmentation fault (Program 
received signal SIGSEGV). reproduced on 3 different machines. the chrash appears after i run updatedb 
and mountet windows-shares via samba.


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x8049588 in getstr (lineptr=0xbffffb30, n=0xbffffb34, stream=0x804a970, 
terminator=0 '\000', offset=65584)
    at getline.c:104
104     in getline.c

I'm not a programmer but i think it's possible to manipulate the stack but 
not serious dangerous i think.

regards,

Tom Fischer


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