Bug 340357 – app-emulation/frodo _FORTIFY_SOURCE indicates presence of overflow

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-10-10 14:55:43 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) 2010-10-10 14:55:59 UTC]

Created attachment 250123 [details]
Build log

[Comment 2 Kevin McCarthy (RETIRED) 2011-01-29 14:35:19 UTC]

Created attachment 260995 [details, diff]
Patch to fix the off-by-one overflow

This patch takes care of the FORTIFY_SOURCE error, but there seem to be many other issues with frodo on Unix-like OSes. It hasn't been updated upstream for 10 years but the author is supposed to be working on a complete re-write for version 5: see http://frodo.cebix.net/

As far as I can see, there is no advantage to running this instead of app-emulation/vice which works very well. So I would vote to remove this from the tree, at least until version 5 is available.

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-02-06 19:07:32 UTC]

Unmaintained package with security problems, CCing treecleaners for removal

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-09-04 10:57:45 UTC]

gone