Bug 2190057

Summary:	psacct programs like lastcomm and dump-acct abort with "buffer overflow detected"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Norman Gaywood <ngaywood>
Component:	psacct	Assignee:	Jan Rybar <jrybar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	38	CC:	jrybar, kdudka
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Description Norman Gaywood 2023-04-27 01:55:18 UTC

With psacct enabled, running lastcomm (and other programs in psacct package) print some information then abort. Example:
# lastcomm
[snip]
readlink               root     __         0.00 secs Thu Apr 27 11:49
systemd-coredum  S     root     __         0.02 secs Thu Apr 27 11:49
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install psacct
2. systemctl enable --now psacct.service
3. lastcomm
Actual Results:  
lastcomm aborts with:
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)

Expected Results:  
lastcomm should not abort

Comment 1 Jan Rybar 2023-05-02 06:58:41 UTC

A bug caused by new FORTIFY_SOURCE_3.  
Looking into it.

Comment 2 Jan Rybar 2023-05-02 08:00:06 UTC

(In reply to Jan Rybar from comment #1)
> A bug caused by new FORTIFY_SOURCE_3.  
> Looking into it.

EDIT: "caused by" -> "pointed at by"

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2023-05-02 14:33:48 UTC

FEDORA-2023-0e2de87c99 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-0e2de87c99

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2023-05-03 01:23:37 UTC

FEDORA-2023-0e2de87c99 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-0e2de87c99`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-0e2de87c99

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2023-05-07 01:20:34 UTC

FEDORA-2023-0e2de87c99 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.