Bug 746
| Summary: | ifconfig does something stupid. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Component: | net-tools | Assignee: | Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-01-12 14:10:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This has been verified to act as the user reports. It is being assigned to a developer. Already fixed in net-tools-1.49-2. |
fuzzball:~$ /sbin/ifconfig 1234567890123456 1234567890123456=4`@q?H#: unknown interface. Here's the diff to fix it: --- ifconfig.c Fri Jan 8 16:39:25 1999 +++ ifconfig.c Fri Jan 8 16:40:44 1999 @@ -496,7 +496,8 @@ /* No. Fetch the interface name. */ spp = argv; - strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, *spp++, IFNAMSIZ); + strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, *spp++, IFNAMSIZ-1); + ifr.ifr_name[IFNAMSIZ-1]=0; if (*spp == (char *)NULL) { if_print(ifr.ifr_name); (void) close(skfd);