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Bug 338905

Summary: sci-electronics/xnec2c _FORTIFY_SOURCE indicates presence of overflow
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major CC: hardened, sci-electronics
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 259417    
Attachments: Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-09-27 09:27:46 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) gentoo-dev 2010-09-27 09:28:00 UTC
Created attachment 248772 [details]
Build log
Comment 2 Thomas Beierlein gentoo-dev 2010-09-27 15:43:39 UTC
+  27 Sep 2010; Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe@gentoo.org> xnec2c-1.4.ebuild,
+  +files/xnec2c-1.4-fortify.patch:
+  Fix buffer overflow (Bug 338905). Thanks Diego for reporting.
+