Bug 73327 - stack smash in cal
Summary: stack smash in cal
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.3
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-03 00:56 UTC by Joe Dalton
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-07-07 16:03:59 UTC
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Description Joe Dalton 2002-09-03 00:56:48 UTC
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Description of problem:
I have libsafe v2.0.16 installed. When running 'cal' on an xterm, libsafe
terminates it indicating a string overflow into the stack.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install libsafe
2. cat '/lib/libsafe.so.2' > /etc/ld.so.preload (one time)
3. run 'cal'
	

Actual Results:  libsafe terminates 'cal' with an error.

Expected Results:  a display of the calender.

Additional info:

[joe@bimbo rpmfiles]$ cal
Libsafe version 2.0.16
Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary.
Terminating /usr/bin/cal.
    uid=500  euid=500  pid=4429
Call stack:
    0x40015982  /lib/libsafe.so.2.0.16
    0x400160a1  /lib/libsafe.so.2.0.16
    0x8048f07   /usr/bin/cal
    0x8048d3d   /usr/bin/cal
    0x400491bf  /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
Overflow caused by wcscat()
Killed
[joe@bimbo rpmfiles]$ 
[joe@bimbo rpmfiles]$ cat /etc/ld.so.preload
/lib/libsafe.so.2
[joe@bimbo rpmfiles]$ 
[joe@bimbo rpmfiles]$ rpm -q libsafe
libsafe-2.0-16
[joe@bimbo rpmfiles]$

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-09-03 13:09:06 UTC
Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to check with libsafe. Unfortunately I really need an actual bug 
report - i.e. telling what's broken (or that you can get an actual segfault to occur) instead of 
just pointing out what libsafe thinks there is a problem (but which may be another false 
alarm).


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