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Bug#454212: megahal segfaults as soon as it's launched



tag 454212 - unreproducible
tag 454212 + patch
thanks

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:21:01PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
 
> However, the original problem is on i386 and happens earlier in the
> initialization code. I can't reproduce it myself, but I think it might
> well be caused by the sprintf overflow.

Heh, one more thing: I was able to reproduce this on i386 with a username
of nine characters. Verified that the patch really fixes this; the
sprintf() overflow apparently corrupts a memory area allocated by fopen().

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org



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