Bug 76097 - smartctl/smartd missing man pages
Summary: smartctl/smartd missing man pages
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel-utils
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-16 20:06 UTC by Bruce Allen
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2004-10-20 14:33:24 UTC
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Description Bruce Allen 2002-10-16 20:06:23 UTC
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Description of problem:
These are extremely useful utilities that can be used to monitor
hard disk reliability (in particular the SMART features of most
modern ATA hard disks).  Unfortunately the redhat release left out the man pages.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install kernel-utils-2.4-7.4
2.man smartctl (fails)
3.man smartd (fails)
	

Actual Results:  No man pages

Additional info:

The original utilities are available from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/

Versions with some of the bugs fixed and improved (& consistent) 
documentation can be found here:
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

The latter package also fixes an potential buffer overflow vulnerability
in the smartd and smartctl, which copy an arbitrary-length user input
into a fixed-length 256 byte buffer in ParseOpts. 
This is replaced by a calls to getopt().
I don't think that the buffer overflow is exploitable since the code doesn't
normally run as SUID root, but I am not expert and am not sure


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