Distribution: Debian 3.1
Package: gnome-vfs
Severity: critical
Version: GNOME2.8.1 2.7.x
Gnome-Distributor: Debian
Synopsis: http-protocol in gnome-vfs2 v2.8.3 causes crashes on 64-bit machines
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-vfs
Bugzilla-Component: Module: http
Bugzilla-Version: 2.7.x
Description:
Description of Problem:

See also this Debian bug-report (includes patch):

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285726

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. invoke "bug-buddy" on a 64-bit machine (e.g., ia64 Linux)

Actual Results:

Bug-buddy crashes immediately with a SIGSEGV because libhttp.so has a
pointer-truncation problem due to stpncpy() being implicitly declared to
return a 32-bit "int", rather than a 64-bit "char *".

Expected Results:

Bug-buddy shouldn't crash.

How often does this happen?

Every time.

Additional Information:

The fix is simple: ensure that pre-processor-symbol _GNU_SOURCE is
defined when imported/neon/ne_{string,session}.c get compiled.  In the
proposed Debian patch, I defined the symbols simply at the beginning of
those files, but it may be better to do this via configure magic (i.e.,
check if you're using GNU libc and, if so, add -D_GNU_SOURCE to the CPP
defines).




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