[Debichem-devel] Bug#703965: gabedit aborts while reading output: buffer overflow detected

[fulvio ciriaco]

Package: gabedit
Version: 2.4.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,
while using gabedit to read gamess output, it breaks while
parsing because of buffer overflow detected in libc.
The following is the head of the backtrace
=======================================================
*** buffer overflow detected ***: gabedit terminatede/b3lyp/cf3x/cis-amm mar 26 11:03:53
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0xb6ce43c0]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0xe92fa)[0xb6ce32fa]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0xe8a38)[0xb6ce2a38]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0x9e)[0xb6c6947e]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x478a)[0xb6c3e1ea]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xa7)[0xb6ce2ae7]
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0xb6ce2a2d]
gabedit[0x808dd98]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08558000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1317912    /usr/bin/gabedit
08558000-08559000 r--p 00510000 08:02 1317912    /usr/bin/gabedit
08559000-08582000 rw-p 00511000 08:02 1317912    /usr/bin/gabedit
08582000-085f3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
09a3e000-0a145000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
========================================================
It does not do so for all outputs, but on selected ones predictably.
Fulvio Ciriaco

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gabedit depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.5-4
ii  libgl2ps0                 1.3.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    8.0.5-4
ii  libgomp1                  4.7.2-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libgtkglext1              1.2.0-2
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  openbabel                 2.3.1+dfsg-4

Versions of packages gabedit recommends:
ii  mpqc  2.3.1-14

Versions of packages gabedit suggests:
ii  a2ps                         1:4.14-1.1
ii  cups-bsd [lpr]               1.5.3-2.15
ii  ftp                          0.17-27
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.0p1-4

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