control: reassign -1 valgrind control: affects -1 libc6 Hi,
On 2023-01-12 10:15, Mike Hommey wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.36-8 > Severity: important > > STR: > - apt install firefox valgrind > - valgrind --show-mismatched-frees=no firefox > > valgrind will quickly show errors like: > ==6383== Invalid read of size 8 > ==6383== at 0x4023A34: strncmp (strcmp-sse2.S:162) Looking at the source code the code in the glibc is correct. It reads the data in chunk of 16-bytes, which indeed can go slightly over the allocated memory, but extra care is taken to not cross a cache line. The solution there is to add a suppression file to valgrind to ignore that. I am therefore reassigning the bug to the valgrind package. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
