Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:12:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff King <peff-freebsd@peff.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/67111: port news/leafnode abort()s due to vsnprintf problems Message-ID: <200405240512.i4O5CfdR020629@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200405240520.i4O5KM3S086936@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 67111
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: port news/leafnode abort()s due to vsnprintf problems
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 23 22:20:21 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeff King
>Release:
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
In 1.9.54, fetchnews.c, line 1625, there is a call to ln_log() that contains the formatting string "%p". This is eventually passed to vsnprintf. The included version doesn't support %p, and calls abort().
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Replacing the %p with %d fixes the abort() (though gcc complains about the pointer/integer formatting; a better fix might be to avoid printing a pointer that is likely meaningless to the user).
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