From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020401 Description of problem: tcpdump exits with a segmentation fault Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start tcpdump 2. 3. Actual Results: Segmentation fault Additional info: (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/sbin/tcpdump (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x420f6cbf in __nss_ethers_lookup () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (gdb) br Breakpoint 1 at 0x420f6cbf (gdb) bt #0 0x420f6cbf in __nss_ethers_lookup () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #1 0x420fba3d in ether_ntohost () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #2 0x08061957 in strcpy () #3 0x08061a44 in strcpy () #4 0x0804a976 in strcpy () #5 0x420174d9 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 Probably this is a glibc bug. But tcpdump is the only program triggering it on my system.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62397 ***