Re: slocate bug.

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () tisbrasil com br>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:39:17AM -0500, KF wrote:
> Heres the details on Mandrake Linux 
Here are on Conectiva Linux

> [elguapo@linux elguapo]$ ls -al `which slocate`
> -rwxr-sr-x    2 root     slocate     24956 Apr  6  2001
> /usr/bin/slocate*

frodo [/home/rodrigob] > ls -al `which slocate`
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     slocate     32300 Jan 23 15:13 /usr/bin/slocate

> [elguapo@linux elguapo]$ uname -a
> Linux linux.ckfr.com 2.4.3-20mdk #1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001 i686
> unknown

frodo [/home/rodrigob] > uname -a 
Linux frodo.bh.tisbrasil 2.4.17-13cl #1 Fri Feb 1 18:33:09 BRST 2002 i686 unknown

> [elguapo@linux elguapo]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586

frodo [/home/rodrigob] > cat /etc/conectiva-release 
Conectiva Linux BETA (RdL)

(Note: This is the snapshot version)

> [elguapo@linux elguapo]$ slocate -r `perl -e 'print "A" x 65026'`
> Segmentation fault

frodo [/home/rodrigob] > slocate -r `perl -e 'print "A" x 65026'`
fatal error: error: slocate: regular expression: Regular expression too big

> #0  0x400eeb69 in regerror () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0804aa99 in strcpy ()

This looks like a bug I fixed on Aug 2000 (and sent back to the maintainer)

* Wed Aug 23 2000 Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob () conectiva com>

- Improved patch for glibc >= 2.1.90
- Fixed buffer overflow on misc.c:load_file

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