Bug#557771: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/perl terminated

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:55:58PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:30:56PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > I wasn't aware libc is
> > compiled with fortifying options, is that the case elsewhere too?
> 
> Isn't it rather that Perl is being compiled with fortifying options (I
> didn't check)?  glibc / GCC only provide the infrastructure and print out
> the error message.

You're right of course, sorry. It must be the -fstack-protector compile
flag added with 5.10.1. That would explain why I haven't seen reports
with this failure mode earlier.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org