Bug 77930

Summary:	rhPrintOSKernelString can print stack garbage
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	S. A. Hutchins <sh4d0wstr1f3>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	8.0
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Fixed In Version:	4.2.1-20	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description S. A. Hutchins 2002-11-15 15:38:38 UTC

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Description of problem:
buf[] is never initialized; if for whatever reason, XFree86 is unable to open
/proc/version, the read (which does initialize buf) will fail. While the "OS
Kernel: " string does check to see if buf[] is NULL, buf[0] will only be 0 by
chance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mess with the kernel so that /proc/version doesn't exist/isn't readable
2. Run XFree86.
3. Notice the output of "OS Kernel:" is garbage.
	

Actual Results:  OS Kernel: (heart) PF

Expected Results:  OS Kernel: 2.4.18-14

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-12-09 16:44:04 UTC

I've created a fix for this which will be in rawhide CVS build 20021208.1
and later.  Once it is confirmed to work correctly, I'll put it into
the erratum branch also.

Would you willing to test the rawhide build?

Comment 2 S. A. Hutchins 2002-12-11 18:31:12 UTC

I'd certainly be willing to test it if I can find the time. It'd be easiest if I
could take a patch to 4.2.0; if not, could you tip me towards where I need to
get the version you'd like me to test? I've never retrieved anything from
RawHide before.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-12-21 13:15:42 UTC

Sure, rawhide is available from:

ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide

Also, I put up XFree86 snapshots, and beta test packages at:

ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing   for different releases of
Red Hat Linux.  The extremely-unstable-blah-blah dir is the developmental
stuff that ends up going into rawhide.  (The directory name is named
as such to discourage people from upgrading to these packages and expecting
rock solid support).

I haven't seen any problems yet being reported since I put this patch
in, so I might generate one for 4.2.1 soon as well.

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2002-12-21 16:32:45 UTC

XFree86-4.2.1-10.3 has the backported fix.  Please test and let me know
if it works for you ok.

ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/8.0/XFree86

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2002-12-22 20:31:19 UTC

Seems to work ok for me, closing as fixed in RAWHIDE.

Comment 6 Mike A. Harris 2003-05-26 05:07:22 UTC

Reclosing as fixed in ERRATA for upcoming erratum release.