[TRE-general] buffer overflow on x86_64

Mon Aug 28 22:48:07 EEST 2006

On Monday, 28 August 2006 at 20:44, Ville Laurikari wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > There seems to be a bug in either crm114 or tre which causes buffer
> > overflows when both are compiled for 64bit. Details of the problem
> > here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202893
> 
> Hi!
> 
> There's a chance that this bug is already fixed in the upstream darcs
> repo which is to become 0.7.5 some day.
> 
> The patch I'm talking about is here:
>   http://laurikari.net/darcs/darcs.cgi/tre-stable/?c=diff&p=20060728142445-ced27-cb09b970ebbcf69e595206351e4d26d3c6d477f5.gz
> 
> Does this by any chance solve the problem?  If not, there are further
> 64 bitness bugs in there somewhere.

I'm afraid it doesn't.

> I can take a look if I can get some example code which invokes the bug.

Well, I can reproduce this with crm114 test suite. That's a lot of code,
but every single test fails. Just build crm114 and do `make megatest` to
see a lot of crashes.

Regards,
R.

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