Bug 190589 – getopt_long SEGVs when given "off by one" long names as an argument

Bug 190589 - getopt_long SEGVs when given "off by one" long names as an argument

Summary:	getopt_long SEGVs when given "off by one" long names as an argument

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2006-05-03 15:23 EDT by James Antill
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-05-03 16:17:32 EDT
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Description James Antill 2006-05-03 15:23:13 EDT

Created attachment 128556 [details]
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Comment 1 James Antill 2006-05-03 15:23:13 EDT

Description of problem:
 If you have a long option --foobar and pass --fooba getopt_long SEGVs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 FC4 and FC5 glibc, but not RHEL-4 glibc.

How reproducible:
 Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See attached program.
2. compile.
3. run.
  
Actual results:
 SEGV

Expected results:
 not SEGV

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2006-05-03 16:17:32 EDT

That testcase is invalid.
See the "The last element of the array has to be filled with zeroes."
note in man getopt_long which is violated.

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