Bug 343133 – app-misc/g15daemon _FORTIFY_SOURCE indicates presence of overflow

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-10-28 18:35:23 UTC]

You're receiving this bug because the package in Summary has produced _FORTIFY_SOURCE related warnings indicating the presence of a sure overflow in a static buffer.

Even though this is not always an indication of a security problem it might even be. So please check this out ASAP.

By the way, _FORTIFY_SOURCE is disabled when you disable optimisation, so don't try finding out the cause using -O0.

Thanks,
Your friendly neighborhood tinderboxer

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-10-28 18:36:02 UTC]

Created attachment 252409 [details]
Build log

[Comment 2 Kevin Pyle 2010-12-18 20:54:08 UTC]

Created attachment 257515 [details, diff]
Patch to g15daemon-1.9.5.3-r3.ebuild to resolve reported overflow

Upstream uses a hardcoded size of 10 for recv, but passes a buffer that is only int[2], which is too small.  It happens to work for the intended use since they really only expect to receive 1 byte, but this patch fixes it so that the argument to recv specifies the proper length.

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2011-08-03 07:49:52 UTC]

*** Bug 354921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2011-08-03 07:50:10 UTC]

Fixed in r4 (used the patch from the other bug).