Public bug reported:
Ubuntu release: 12.04
Package version: 0.1.33
When parsing fields in a crash report file, whoopsie will reallocate the
value buffer when appending continuation lines. The current length of
the buffer is computed by pointer arithmetic and the result stored in a
signed integer.
I've tested this on Precise by running the attached script.
With the old package version (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.1) this caused top to crash
after about 90 minutes.
With the new package version (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.3), it's been running without
incident for the last 24 hours.
Note, that as we're deali
Dave: I've been seeing this about twice a day since I picked up the new
packages (about a week ago).
I've got a cron job that runs every 5 minutes, and one of the things it
runs is "top -c -b -n 2 -d 2", which is what's exploding for me.
The systems this job runs on tend to be transient (they're
Public bug reported:
The changes made in the following commit, which backported a number of
changes to the procps package in precise, result in various procps
utilities crashing with a SIGSEGV if the file2str function in
proc/readproc.c reads zero bytes.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branch
This issue is still present in precise. It appears that bzr477
reintroduced it.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911704
Title:
vmbuilder fails with "device-mapper: remove ioctl failed:
