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From: Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: mc 4.8.19: segfaults while searching for contents
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:34:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b88ad684-f918-389b-de9a-25dbe4e03b0c@ipfire.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507131692.433.10.camel@ipfire.org>

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On 04.10.2017 17:41, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> this doesn't have anything to do with PaX. It's just a bug in mc.
> 
> Probably has this problem with files that have the SUID bit set?!

Perhaps. Will look at this when I have the time again.

> Did you try to update mc?

I tested with several versions and clean compilations - its always the
same. On the 'Devel' machine (Ubuntu, mc 4.8.15, no PaX) everything works.

Best,
Matthias

> -Michael
> 
> On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 09:24 +0200, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 03.10.2017 08:50, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>> > ...
>> > 
>> > Suddenly 'mc 4.8.19' starts throwing segfaults...
>> > 
>> > ...
>> 
>> This is weird.
>> 
>> As soon as directory (e.g. '/usr/local/bin') contains the file
>> 'ipfirereboot', 'mc' crashes while searching for content 'flush' (e.g.).
>> 
>> Thus, I would say, 'mc' has problems searching in (specific) binaries -
>> searching in '/usr/bin' has the same effect.
>> 
>> And:
>> 
>> The following 'paxctl'-options had NO effect:
>> 
>> ...
>> root(a)ipfire: /usr/bin # paxctl -v /usr/bin/mc
>> PaX control v0.9
>> Copyright 2004,2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,2011,2012,2014 PaX Team
>> <pageexec(a)freemail.hu>
>> 
>> - PaX flags: -p-s-m-x-e-- [/usr/bin/mc]
>>         PAGEEXEC is disabled
>>         SEGMEXEC is disabled
>>         MPROTECT is disabled
>>         RANDEXEC is disabled
>>         EMUTRAMP is disabled
>> ...
>> 
>> Searching in text-only files is ok, but as soon as directory contains
>> the above file (or something similar), 'mc' crashes.
>> 
>> This does NOT happen on my devel with 'mc 4.8.15'... ;-)
>> 
>> Best,
>> Matthias
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-04 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-03  6:50 Matthias Fischer
2017-10-03  7:24 ` Matthias Fischer
2017-10-04 15:41   ` Michael Tremer
2017-10-04 16:34     ` Matthias Fischer [this message]

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