Bug 1029468 - pvm: trcsort crashes with exit status 139
Summary: pvm: trcsort crashes with exit status 139
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1029469 1029471
Blocks: 1029473
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-12 12:47 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-05-29 07:09:52 UTC
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-11-12 12:47:32 UTC 
trcsort, found in the package PVM, crashes with exit status 139.

The reporter has specifically crafted a shell file, which have been confirmed to crash the application with error output as:
/crash.sh: line 20:  7696 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) /usr/share/pvm3/bin/LINUXX86_64/tracer "`cat $DIR/argv_1.symb`" < "$DIR/file___dev__stdin.symb"

The complete crash dump and shell file is provided by the original reporter here:
http://www.forallsecure.com/bug-reports/a69cfdfa36bb4f338c9d6464f0703fcc8821b309/full_report

References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716396
Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-11-12 12:50:00 UTC 
Created pvm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1029469]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1029471]
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-05-29 07:09:52 UTC 
The Red Hat Security Security Response team does not consider this issue to be a security flaw.
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