Bug 63988 - tcpdump does a Segmentation fault
Summary: tcpdump does a Segmentation fault
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 62397
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: tcpdump
Version: skipjack-beta2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-23 10:03 UTC by Adrian Reber
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-23 10:03:51 UTC
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Description Adrian Reber 2002-04-23 10:03:45 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2002-04-23 10:43:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62397 ***


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