Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
During system setup I had set clock-format=%A %d %B %Y %H:%M in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf to get a nicely formatted date included in the greeter panel's clock display. On the first of September I started seeing number-in-box placeholder characters appearing on the panel clock where the year and time should have been. Function clock_timeout_thread() in lightdm-gtk-greeter.c allocates a 25 byte buffer for strftime() to write the formatted time back to. This is not long enough to contain the string "Sunday 01 September 2013 23:00", and the code doesn't check the strftime() return value before passing the buffer to gtk_label_set_markup(). The bogus date I saw is probably gtk_label_set_markup() trying to display an unterminated string. For the time being I'm just using a date format that will always fit inside 25 characters, but it would be good to make this a little more robust. Even simply increasing the buffer size to 50 with no other changes would allow any reasonable date+time format to fit. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on: ii libc6 2.17-92 ii libcairo2 1.12.14-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.28.2-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.8.2-3 ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.6.0-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.1-1 Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter recommends: ii desktop-base 7.0.3 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.8.2-2 ii gnome-themes-standard 3.8.3-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-3 lightdm-gtk-greeter suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf changed: [greeter] background=/usr/share/images/desktop-base/login-background.svg theme-name=Clearlooks xft-antialias=true xft-dpi=96 xft-hintstyle=hintslight xft-rgba=rgb show-clock=true clock-format=%A %d %B %Y %H:%M -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
