FC4 test 2 jpilot buffer overlow...

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:52:56PM -0700, David Meyer wrote:
 > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:48:22PM -0400, Richard Ramson wrote:
 > > On Apr 11, 2005 6:39 PM, David Meyer <dmm at 1-4-5.net> wrote:
 > > > 
 > > >         Anyone else seeing this:
 > > > 
 > > > [dmm at wayback:~]1% jpilot --version
 > > > *** buffer overflow detected ***
 > > > Abort
 > > > [dmm at wayback:~]2%
 > > > 
 > > >         Thanks,
 > > > 
 > > >         Dave
 > > 
 > > What is jpilot anyway???  I ran the same command as you and I got the
 > > following message below.
 > 
 >  
 >         Its a phone/pda calendaring/sync utility; I kinda like it
 > 	(when it works :-). I have had no problem with it under
 > 	FC3.  

Newer releases of glibc have extra checks for issues that can be
security problems.  You hit one :-)

Please be sure to file a bug for this if you haven't already.

		Dave