Bug#827031: Bug#656862: Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Roman No worry. Anyway regarding security. According to the academics definition of security it implies - Integrity - Confidentiality - Availability What we may have a problem with here is the integrity. The confidentiality is usually lost anyway as vnc is not encrypted. With the harden patch

Bug#827031: Bug#656862: Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
:D Sent from a phone Den 14 jun 2016 14:33 skrev "Roman Mamedov" : > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:21:47 +0200 > Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > It was not Torsten who wrote the patch. > > > Just FYI. > > Apologies for assuming that he did. Guess I jumped to replying due to > facing > this attitude too ofte

Bug#827031: Bug#656862: Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:21:47 +0200 Ola Lundqvist wrote: > It was not Torsten who wrote the patch. > Just FYI. Apologies for assuming that he did. Guess I jumped to replying due to facing this attitude too often, that things must be ultra-hardened and uber-secure, without any concern if it's act

Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Roman It was not Torsten who wrote the patch. Just FYI. We may have a security issue, but I guess it is not critical. Epecially since it is in a client software. / Ola Sent from a phone Den 14 jun 2016 14:18 skrev "Roman Mamedov" : > On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:02:42 +0200 (CEST) > Thorsten Gla

Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:02:42 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your report. It happen to be the harden-build flag > > correction that caused this. I have reverted that now and will upload > > Erm… how about you fix the bug instead? The hardened build just makes > the syste

Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi The harden build flags bug is still open (I reopened it). The proposed patch was not good enough. / Ola Sent from a phone Den 14 jun 2016 14:02 skrev "Thorsten Glaser" : > On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for your report. It happen to be the harden-build flag > >

Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Thanks a lot for your report. It happen to be the harden-build flag > correction that caused this. I have reverted that now and will upload Erm… how about you fix the bug instead? The hardened build just makes the system reliably crash instead of unreli

Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-11 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Thorsten Thanks a lot for your report. It happen to be the harden-build flag correction that caused this. I have reverted that now and will upload a corrected package shortly. Thanks again! // Ola On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Thorsten Bonow wrote: > Package: xvnc4viewer > Version: 4.1.1

Bug#827031: xvnc4viewer: crashes with stack smashing on startup

2016-06-11 Thread Thorsten Bonow
Package: xvnc4viewer Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-38 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer, since the last update, vncviewer crashes when I try to connect (output appended below). I think the problem is caused by the viewer and not by the server ("vnc4server 4.1.1+X4.3.0-37.6 i386" on a Debian stable host),