Date: 01 Oct 1998 00:39:51 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Christian Perrier <perrier@onera.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc5des software crash under 2.2.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <xzpn27h2pjc.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Christian Perrier's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:17:18 %2B0200" References: <19980929141718.A26543@kernighan.onera>
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Christian Perrier <perrier@onera.fr> writes: > maroussia# ./rc5des > rc5des in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > Segmentation fault (core dumped) There is a subtle and elusive bug in the VM system that will cause some programs to print that under some circumstances. The segfault comes from rc5des trying to parse the warning message as something else and not being robust enough to handle unexpected input. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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