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Bug#64576: segfaults in busybox



On Tue May 23, 2000 at 11:06:16PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue May 23, 2000 at 07:33:17PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > Package: boot-floppies
> > Version: 2.2.13
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > The following invocations of busybox result in segfaults.  These appear
> > to be due to the convention of argument parsing which doesn't ensure
> > that the current argv is not null before dereferencing it.  None of
> > these are high priority, as they are all invalid invocations.  But
> > segfaults aren't nice.  Here are the offending command lines:
> > 
> > chmod -R
> > chown -R
> > chgrp -R
> > cp -a -a
> > ln -s -s
> > rm -f
> > touch -c
> > 
> > I believe that update and swaponoff are also broken.
> 
> Thank you for the bug report.  I will test and fix
> each case and get the fixes into CVS as soon as 
> possable.

I have all of these (plus many other things) fixed in my 
local CVS tree.  Do the powers that be want me to check
my fixes into the boot floppies CVS tree?

 -Erik

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