Subject: echoping: Glibc complains when the URL parameter is too long
Package: echoping
Version: 5.2.0-2.1
Severity: normal
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When the -h (URL) parameter exceeds 118 caharcters, the program either
segfaults or aborts, as shown below. Note sometime the URL string being
tested with echoping(1) may exceed this length when query parameters are
included.
The first example here shows correct operation:
/usr/bin/echoping -h
"/?query=012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456"
www.james.rcpt.to
Elapsed time: 0.594476 seconds
The second example shows the URL querystring being one character longer:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/echoping -h
"/?query=0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567"
www.james.rcpt.to
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x080993a0 ***
Aborted
Thanks.
JEB
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages echoping depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgnutls13 1.4.4-3 the GNU TLS library -
runtime libr
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library,
implementation
echoping recommends no packages.
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