Package: powertop Version: 1.11-1 Severity: normal Tags: lenny powertop 1.11-1 is limited to 5000 lines in the kernel config file (/boot/config-*). The latest kernel exceeds this hard coded limit:
# wc /boot/config-2.6.35-rc5-amd64 5024 8611 115367 /boot/config-2.6.35-rc5-amd64 Newer versions of powertop increase the limit to 10000 but still crash when the limit is exceeded (see file config.c). This is a potential security problem (out-of-bounds array access). I have just sent a patch which fixes the bug to Auke Kok (author of powertop). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages powertop depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand powertop recommends no packages. Versions of packages powertop suggests: ii cpufrequtils 007-1 utilities to deal with the cpufreq pn laptop-mode-tools <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
