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Bug#410131: libc6: running "mount / -o remount" gives glibc double-free



On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:04:37AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-10
> Severity: normal
> 
> I had a system that (for unknown reasons) got a 0 byte mtab file.  When
> running "mount / -o remount" to fix this I got a glibc error.  The mount
> version is 2.12r-16.  This is repeatable in the latest etch with the
> following commands:
> # echo -n > /etc/mtab
> # mount / -o remount
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0805d7d0 ***
> Aborted

  err, why would that be a libc problem and not a mount one ? not that
I contest this could be true btw, but have you any hint that could
support this ?

  Note that I confirm I can reproduce it here too.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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