Package: iputils-ping
Version: 3:20100418-3
Severity: normal

In niquery_option_subject_addr_handler, the return value of getaddrinfo is
mischecked, considerated good when != 0,
If getaddrinfo succeed , ping6 will show an error and exit.
If getaddrinfo fails, unitialized memory is used as the struct addrinfo.



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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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Versions of packages iputils-ping depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-3          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8o-4squeeze13 SSL shared libraries

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--- ping6.c.old 2012-07-30 21:39:49.000000000 +0200
+++ ping6.c     2012-07-30 21:40:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
        hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
 
        gai = getaddrinfo(arg, 0, &hints, &ai0);
-       if (!gai) {
+       if (gai) {
                fprintf(stderr, "Unknown host: %s\n", arg);
                return -1;
        }

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