[Parted-maintainers] Bug#541116: gnu-fdisk: FTBFS

[Rogério Brito]

Package: gnu-fdisk
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: serious

As you can see from the output below, the package FTBFS with an up to
date sid system:

,----
| checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... yes
| checking for ped_device_read in -lparted... yes
| checking for libparted - version >= 1.7.0... UNKNOWN-dirty, bad version string
| no
| configure: error: *** libparted >= 1.7.0 not installed - please install first ***
| make: *** [config.status] Error 1
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
| rbrito at chagas:/tmp/gnu-fdisk-1.2.2$ dpkg --status libparted1.8-dev | grep Version
| Version: 1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-3
| rbrito at chagas:/tmp/gnu-fdisk-1.2.2$ 
`----

While it is trivial to make the configure step be bypassed, since we
have a suitable library, the program (even if I use the updated 1.2.3
version from upstream) still segfaults with a memory leak.

Running it under valgrind shows a scary leak. :-/

Here is the output of a 1.2.3 compiled version:

,----
| (...)
|    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
| ==15707== Invalid read of size 1
| ==15707==    at 0x4C24092: strlen (mc_replace_strmem.c:242)
| ==15707==    by 0x597242D: vfprintf (in /lib/libc-2.9.so)
| ==15707==    by 0x5978499: printf (in /lib/libc-2.9.so)
| ==15707==    by 0x405455: do_print (fdisk.c:1100)
| ==15707==    by 0x408563: fdisk_do_list_devices (fdisk.c:1331)
| ==15707==    by 0x40FE2B: fdisk_interactive_mode (ui.c:732)
| ==15707==    by 0x408662: fdisk (fdisk.c:2844)
| ==15707==    by 0x594A5C5: (below main) (in /lib/libc-2.9.so)
| ==15707==  Address 0xff is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
| ==15707== 
`----

Apparently, the string used there is causing the strlen to run out of
bounds.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc5-1rb.pre6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnu-fdisk depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-24         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
pn  libparted1.8-10           <none>         (no description available)
ii  libreadline5              5.2-5          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libuuid1                  2.16-2.1       Universally Unique ID library

gnu-fdisk recommends no packages.

gnu-fdisk suggests no packages.

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