From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: Netstat, and probably other programs that read the /etc/services map to display service names in output can segfault if for some reason there is an entry with a long service name. This is not really a problem, though it could be if for some reason netstat (or some other program) was running suid. Netstat (atleast the one included with net-tools 1.53) is vulnerable to this, and defaults to not use numeric output. It's just an annoyance. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open /etc/services 2. add/modify an entry for a port your machine is listening on with a (> 256 chars?)long service name 3. run netstat Actual Results: segmentation fault Expected Results: trimmed output Additional info:
I just verified that this still happens on 7.2. If time permits i'll look into it, but as netstat is not suid (as you already mentioned) and services normally aren't that long this is nothing very serious, but a bug nonetheless :-) Read ya, Phil
Actually now that i thought about it some more it's probably not worth fixing as this hardly ever happens. Thanks for reporting though. Read ya, Phil