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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: rc5des software crash under 2.2.7-RELEASE
From:       dag-erli () ifi ! uio ! no (Dag-Erling C !  =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Date:       1998-09-30 22:39:51
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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
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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