Bug 191215 - Busybox: glibc::free() detected invalid pointer...
Summary: Busybox: glibc::free() detected invalid pointer...
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: busybox
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Ivana Varekova
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-09 19:50 UTC by Randy Zagar
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-11-30 13:22:13 UTC
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Description Randy Zagar 2006-05-09 19:50:03 UTC
Description of problem:
busybox egrep function tries to free invalid pointer

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
busybox-1.00.rc1-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
cat - > /tmp/regexp.partitions <<EOF
[hs]d[a-z]( |$)
cciss/c[0-9]d[0-9]( |$)
EOF

DISK="`busybox egrep -f /tmp/regexp.partitions /proc/partitions | \
           awk 'NR==1 {print $4}'`"

echo ${DISK}
  
Actual results:
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xbffc7b6b ***

Expected results:
hdc

Additional info:
This problem does not exist on FC4 systems with busybox-1.00-5.fc4.  Also, this
bug affects the network install "boot.iso" included with RHEL-4.U3-i386.

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2006-05-12 14:12:05 UTC
This problem is fixed in the version which is on 
http://people.redhat.com/varekova/busybox-1.00.rc1-5.test.i386.rpm .
Could you please test this version.



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