Debian Bug report logs - #17610
sprintf segfaults

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: J M Dent <cszjmd@scs.leeds.ac.uk>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: sprintf segfaults

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:53:22 GMT

Package: libc6
Version: 2.0.6

When linked with -lpthread, sprintf() segfaults when called. It faults
in pthread_mutex_lock() indicating a lock pointer is wrong or
uninitialised; when not linked with -lpthread it is fine.

The bug seems to be confined to sprintf() as fprintf, printf and
others all seem to behave okay.

Originally discovered when using omniORB2. Get the omniORB2 ORB and
run the omniNames program. Even if the omniORB2 package is recompiled,
omniNames segfaults inside of pthread_mutex_lock() which is called
from sprintf().

denty.

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Denty                        http://www.charmed.demon.co.uk/
University of Leeds, LEEDS, UK. +44 976 767741

``Do you have to let it linger?''
        -- Cranberries

Message #8 received at 17610-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

To: 17610-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please confirm this bug.

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:01:03 -0800

Is this bug still present in the current libc6?

Here's what you wrote:
<<
Package: libc6
Version: 2.0.6

When linked with -lpthread, sprintf() segfaults when called. It faults
in pthread_mutex_lock() indicating a lock pointer is wrong or
uninitialised; when not linked with -lpthread it is fine.

The bug seems to be confined to sprintf() as fprintf, printf and
others all seem to behave okay.

Originally discovered when using omniORB2. Get the omniORB2 ORB and
run the omniNames program. Even if the omniORB2 package is recompiled,
omniNames segfaults inside of pthread_mutex_lock() which is called
from sprintf().

denty.

--
Denty                        http://www.charmed.demon.co.uk/
University of Leeds, LEEDS, UK. +44 976 767741
>>
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                     <URL:http://web.espy.org/>
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                  <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
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Message #13 received at 17610-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

To: 17610-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Closing due to lack of response.

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:29:06 -0700

If this bug still exists, reopen it.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                 <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
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