Bug 643341
Summary: | memmem, strstr, and strcasestr are broken | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Andreas Schwab <schwab> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-tools-bugs |
Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | urgent | ||
Version: | 6.0 | CC: | ebachalo, eblake, fweimer, jakub, jwest, pm-eus, pmuller, schwab, syeghiay |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
Doc Text: |
Previously, the generic implementation of the strstr() and memmem() functions did not handle certain periodic patterns correctly and could find a false positive match. This error has been fixed, and both functions now work as expected.
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Last Closed: | 2010-11-10 18:57:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 641128 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2010-10-15 11:01:52 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: Previously, the generic implementation of the strstr() and memmem() functions did not handle certain periodic patterns correctly and failed to find a match. This error has been fixed, and both functions now work as expected. The bug was false positive matches, not false negatives. I updated the technical note accordingly. Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. Diffed Contents: @@ -1 +1 @@ -Previously, the generic implementation of the strstr() and memmem() functions did not handle certain periodic patterns correctly and failed to find a match. This error has been fixed, and both functions now work as expected.+Previously, the generic implementation of the strstr() and memmem() functions did not handle certain periodic patterns correctly and could find a false positive match. This error has been fixed, and both functions now work as expected. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0872.html |