Bug#858178: uuidcdef: buffer overflow

2017-05-15 Thread Chris West
tags 858178 + patch thanks This is correctly diagnosing a buffer which is to small. The length of data written to the buffer is always constant, (20 bytes more than the length of the buffer), and not under user control, so there is probably not a security problem here. A patch, to increase the le

Bug#858178: uuidcdef: buffer overflow

2017-03-19 Thread Christian Buhtz
Package: uuidcdef Version: 0.3.13-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I simply tried to run "uuidcdef" and got this output. user@TONNE:/etc$ uuidcdef *** buffer overflow detected ***: uuidcdef terminated === Backtrace: = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bcb)[0x7fcfa7284bcb] /lib/