Bug 58299 – use of *chgat() function crashes ncurses-based programs

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Bug 58299 - use of *chgat() function crashes ncurses-based programs

Summary:	use of *chgat() function crashes ncurses-based programs

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ncurses (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Reported:	2002-01-13 11:04 EST by Bram
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-01-13 11:04:06 EST
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Description Bram 2002-01-13 11:04:01 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221

Description of problem:
Programs that use the ncurses chgat() function will crash, since this will
trigger an infinite, recursive loop in the ncurses lib. This bug has been
confirmed by the author. Upgrading to a more recent patchlevel (or to the older
5.2-release) fixes this problem.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/mp3blaster/mp3blaster-3.0.tar.gz
2.extract the source, ./configure, make
3.run src/mp3blaster

	

Actual Results:  segmentation fault

Expected Results:  A working version of the program

Additional info:

run src/mp3blaster within gdb, and do a backtrace(bt) to confirm the problem.
Not many ncurses-based programs use chgat(), that's why it probably went by
unnoticed.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-15 06:32:11 EST

Fixed in rawhide

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