[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#718248: nsca-client: Random segmentation faults of send_nsca

[Sebastian Muszynski]

The same applies to me:

[3180372.390416] send_nsca[6312]: segfault at 7fffb8992000 ip 00000000004014b0 
sp 00007fffb898df10 error 6 in send_nsca[400000+5000]
[3266772.438330] send_nsca[18531]: segfault at 7fff4a51c000 ip 00000000004014b0 
sp 00007fff4a518620 error 6 in send_nsca[400000+5000]
[4044371.817215] send_nsca[14462]: segfault at 7fffa98df000 ip 00000000004014b0 
sp 00007fffa98db690 error 6 in send_nsca[400000+5000]
[4303572.326649] send_nsca[19035]: segfault at 7fff72be7000 ip 00000000004014b0 
sp 00007fff72be3100 error 6 in send_nsca[400000+5000]

$ dpkg -l | grep -E "nsca|xinet"
ii  nsca  2.9.1-2  amd64  Nagios service monitor agent 
ii  nsca-client  2.9.1-2  amd64  Nagios service monitor agent - client...
ii  xinetd  1:2.3.14-7.1+deb7u1  amd64  replacement for inetd with...

$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/nsca
# /etc/xinetd.d/nsca
# description: NSCA
# default: on
service nsca
{

        flags           = REUSE
        type            = UNLISTED
        port            = 5667
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = nagios
        group           = nagios
        
        server          = /usr/sbin/nsca
        server_args     = -c /etc/nsca.cfg --inetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        disable         = no
        bind            = 127.0.0.1
        #only_from       = 127.0.0.1
}

Kind regards,

Sebastian