openssh 4.2p1 bug

[Catalin Toda]

one one machine it worked on one did not....


Darren Tucker wrote:
> cata at john.ve.carpathiahost.net wrote:
>> Yes I read it , but I have in fact two systems both with fc2, and one 
>> of them
>> have this issue, one not
> [...]
>> maybe a kernel issue,
>> afaik glibc has only wrapper function for kernel calls...
> 
> The description I got from the engineers was that the crash occurs when 
> glibc attempts to write to a segment mapped readonly.  Maybe the 
> map-readonly feature is only enabled for certain kernels, but I don't know.
> 
> Did you try the 10-line testcase program in the URL?  What was the result?
>