Bug 515030 - vi crashes on start with "*** buffer overflow detected ***"
Summary: vi crashes on start with "*** buffer overflow detected ***"
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 514717
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vim
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-31 22:20 UTC by Pete Zaitcev
Modified: 2009-07-31 22:27 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-31 22:27:05 UTC
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Description Pete Zaitcev 2009-07-31 22:20:47 UTC
Description of problem:

vi, gvim and vim crash immediately at start, with the following:

[zaitcev@niphredil ~]$ gvim 
*** buffer overflow detected ***: gvim terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f3250302ec7]
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x7f3250300e60]
gvim(eval_init+0x6f)[0x469d0f]
gvim(main+0x90)[0x4c0b00]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f3250227b8d]
gvim[0x430509]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

vim-common-7.2.148-2.fc12.x86_64
glibc-2.10.90-11.x86_64  (no prelink)

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. vi
  
Actual results:

Crash

Expected results:

No crash

Additional info:

Previous glibc: glibc-2.10.90-10.i686 (no prelink)
Previous vim: 7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 (very old, but same source)

Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2009-07-31 22:27:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 514717 ***


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