Control: severity -1 important Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 gzip Control: tag -2 security On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:51 -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools-core > Version: 0.123 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > When using lsinitramfs to check the contents of an initrd: > > > root:~# lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2 > > /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-curly-0 > > kernel > > kernel/x86 > > kernel/x86/microcode > > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin > > *** Error in `zcat': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000002236940 *** > > lsinitramfs runs fine on my AMD boxes. > > It seems that Ubuntu has at least two reports of this: see their bug > numberss 1541076 and 1507443. I don't see a Debian bug report on it, though. The crash is a bug in zcat. But presumably we are also not invoking it correctly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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