Bug 690333
| Summary: | Badly formatted account manager requests | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Thibault Nélis <thib> |
| Component: | boinc-client | Assignee: | Milos Jakubicek <xjakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 14 | CC: | cheekyboinc, mmahut, xjakub |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-12-12 22:04:13 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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boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16 boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15 Package boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback). boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. boinc-client-6.12.35-1.r24014svn.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: The client doesn't format /var/lib/boinc/acct_mgr_{login,request}.xml correctly (other files/memory regions may be affected). From what I gather, the reason is the use of strcpy() on overlapping strings. An upstream fix seems to have appeared here: > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/23007/trunk/boinc/lib/str_util.cpp The best discussion on the problem I could find can be found here (along with another unofficial version of the fix): > http://boincstats.com/forum/forum_thread.php?id=5912&sort=6 The most visible ensuing issue for me is the inability to synchronize with "BAM!". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version : 6.10.58 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 3.r22930svn.fc14 Build Date: Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:22:04 AM CET How reproducible: Apparently not 100% for everyone, but so far 100% for me. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup a BAM account on BOINC stats, 2. "Attach" to this account, 3. Synchronize. Actual results: BAM returns "acct_mgr_request empty or corrupt!". Expected results: Considering the badly formatted XML, this is expected. Fixed, the synchronization should obviously be successful. Additional info: Users indeed report the bug as fixed in latest upstream version; I hope the change can be backported in 6.10.58 in this release, as the next upstream stable release doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. Thank you.