Bug 337779

Summary:	sci-chemistry/prekin _FORTIFY_SOURCE indicates presence of overflow
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Chemistry-Related Packages <sci-chemistry>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	hardened
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	259417

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-17 10:21:03 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 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-03 08:28:08 UTC

+*prekin-6.51.081122-r1 (03 Oct 2010)
+
+  03 Oct 2010; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
+  +files/6.51.081122-overflow.patch, prekin-6.51.081122.ebuild,
+  +prekin-6.51.081122-r1.ebuild:
+  Fixes for overflows, 337779
+