[Xymon] buffer overflow detected in xymongen (4.3.21)

J.C. Cleaver cleaver at terabithia.org
Tue Oct 6 05:32:58 CEST 2015


On Mon, October 5, 2015 2:36 am, Axel Beckert wrote:

>> I suppose the below patch would at least keep us from writing past the
>> end
>> on 'l', but in a proper situation we shouldn't need something like it.
>
> The patch seems to help. Until installing xymon with the patch applied
> I had segfaults every minute and since then, no segfault has happened
> anymore for at least 10 minutes.
>

Hmm. I didn't realize it was crashing that often for you. :/

Would it be possible to run the previous copy of xymongen for a cycle or
two with --debug mode enabled? In theory, that should give us a good idea
of the trigger.


Regards,

-jc




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