Bug#365409: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#365409: slapd: segfaults on entry modify

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:28:14PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> >On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:42:57AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> >>OK, the problem doesn't show up at -O0, which supports the theory that
> >>it's some kind of overflow issue. I'm starting a build with -O2 now --
> >>perhaps it can be caught using valgrind on a slightly faster platform,
> >>though...

> >OK, valgrind didn't catch it, but I believe in the theory of a stack
> >smashing problem (which valgrind won't catch; bounds-checking gcc would,
> >though).

> Since this is a bug with OpenLDAP

Is that certain?  It looks just as likely to be a compiler bug to me.

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