Does this still occur in newer version of Ubuntu? I suspect that this was fixed long ago.
** Changed in: net-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Tags added: amd64 natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to net-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023584 Title: ifconfig dies with "stack smashing detected" when configuring inet6 address 11.04 Status in net-tools package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This seems like a bug to me? $ ifconfig 6in4 6in4 Link encap:IPIP Tunnel HWaddr inet6 addr: 2001:470:ad0e:ffff::2/128 Scope:Global POINTOPOINT NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) $ sudo ifconfig 6in4 inet6 pointopoint 2001:470:ad0e:ffff::1 SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device *** stack smashing detected ***: ifconfig terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f5b4081adb7] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7f5b4081ad80] ifconfig[0x40407f] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xff)[0x7f5b4073aeff] ifconfig[0x401a79] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00410000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1310813 /sbin/ifconfig 0060f000-00610000 r--p 0000f000 08:01 1310813 /sbin/ifconfig 00610000-00612000 rw-p 00010000 08:01 1310813 /sbin/ifconfig 017a7000-017c8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f5b4025e000-7f5b40273000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 133379 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f5b40273000-7f5b40472000 ---p 00015000 08:01 133379 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f5b40472000-7f5b40473000 r--p 00014000 08:01 133379 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f5b40473000-7f5b40474000 rw-p 00015000 08:01 133379 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f5b40474000-7f5b4071c000 r--p 00000000 08:01 3070 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 7f5b4071c000-7f5b408a6000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131645 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so 7f5b408a6000-7f5b40aa6000 ---p 0018a000 08:01 131645 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so 7f5b40aa6000-7f5b40aaa000 r--p 0018a000 08:01 131645 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so 7f5b40aaa000-7f5b40aab000 rw-p 0018e000 08:01 131645 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so 7f5b40aab000-7f5b40ab1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f5b40ab1000-7f5b40ad2000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 131642 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so 7f5b40cb6000-7f5b40cb9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f5b40ccd000-7f5b40cce000 r--p 00000000 08:01 38547 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo 7f5b40cce000-7f5b40ccf000 r--p 00000000 08:01 37622 /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo 7f5b40ccf000-7f5b40cd1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f5b40cd1000-7f5b40cd2000 r--p 00020000 08:01 131642 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so 7f5b40cd2000-7f5b40cd4000 rw-p 00021000 08:01 131642 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so 7fff2181a000-7fff2183b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff218dc000-7fff218dd000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-tools/+bug/1023584/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp