Bug#271816: libc6: Random segfault in malloc()

[Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez@debian.org>]

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:24:28PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> 
>>Package: libc6
>>Version: 2.2.5-11.5
>>Severity: critical
> 
> 
> What is your justification for the "critical" tag? Breaks entire system?
> Causes serious data loss? I'd probably downgrade this to "important".

>From the "Mail servers' reference card":
"Makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break"

> Could you try running atftpd through valgrind and see if that pinpoints your
> error?

I've run it through electric fence already. No problems.
As I said I also got similar problem with chntpwd.
The *only* way I found to run atftpd and chntpwd on my woody is to compile them
statically on a sarge.

Try google, and you'll see that's a glibc 2.2.x problem. Dozen of users found
the problem and they mostly run under a glibc 2.2.5 system.

Regards,

-- 
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