Bug#743955: coreutils: corrupted files on heavily fragmented ext3 and ext4 partitions

2015-12-20 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, just wanted to ask: what is the status on this now sufficiently old issue? I keep hitting this via apt-listbugs reports when trying to upgrade from coreutils 8.13-3 to 8.23-4. However, note that the original report said "[bug introduced in coreutils-8.11]" (upstream version value, I assume)

Bug#743955: coreutils: corrupted files on heavily fragmented ext3 and ext4 partitions

2014-04-08 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.5 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer, this bug is described here: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12656 and can be summarized as follows: + cp could read from freed memory and could even make corrupt copies. + This could happen only with a very