Bug 52802 – iwlist causes core dump

Bug 52802 - iwlist causes core dump

Summary:	iwlist causes core dump

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	wireless-tools (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Reported:	2001-08-29 10:00 EDT by northup
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:23 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-11-10 23:39:34 EST
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Description northup 2001-08-29 10:00:05 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
Tried to run iwlist and I got a core dump.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run iwslist
2.gasp at core dump
3.get upset
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-01-24 22:58:28 EST

Did you have any wireless cards installed - if so, what types?

Comment 2 Peter E. Popovich 2002-02-10 21:23:18 EST

eth0 is an Addtron AWP-100.

#ika:i686# iwlist eth0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

reproducible with both:
wireless-tools-21-3 (rh 7.2 release)
wireless-tools-21-4 (rawhide)

(I'm not the original reporter of the bug.)

Comment 3 Ed Marshall 2002-03-27 15:35:29 EST

I can confirm the reported behavior. When running "iwlist <interface>", a core
dump is produced. "iwlist <interface> <command>" works as expected.

Really only a cosmetic problem, unless you've made iwlist suid root for some
strange reason. ;-)

Comment 4 Peter E. Popovich 2003-11-10 19:55:56 EST

methinks the bug has since been fixed.

#ika:i686# rpm -qf `which iwlist`
wireless-tools-26-1
#ika:i686# iwlist eth0
iwlist: unknown command `eth0'
#ika:i686# iwlist 
Usage: iwlist [interface] frequency
              [interface] channel
              [interface] ap
              [interface] accesspoints
              [interface] peers
              [interface] bitrate
              [interface] rate
              [interface] encryption
              [interface] key
              [interface] power
              [interface] txpower
              [interface] retry
              [interface] scanning

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