Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080601-2
Severity: serious
Excerpt from today's update:
Setting up grub-pc (1.96+20080601-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ...
*** glibc detected *** /usr/sbin/grub-probe: realloc(): invalid next size:
0x0000000001bf83d0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fea45626978]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fea4562a571]
/lib/libc.so.6(realloc+0x12f)[0x7fea4562afef]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x402ff9]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x411cb9]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x411d80]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x4130ac]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x4182da]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x4016f2]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x401b68]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7fea455d11a6]
/usr/sbin/grub-probe[0x4014a9]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00422000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 22141
/usr/sbin/grub-probe
00622000-00623000 rwxp 00022000 08:03 22141
/usr/sbin/grub-probe
00623000-0062f000 rwxp 00623000 00:00 0
01be2000-02130000 rwxp 01be2000 00:00 0
[heap]
7fea40000000-7fea40021000 rwxp 7fea40000000 00:00 0
7fea40021000-7fea44000000 ---p 7fea40021000 00:00 0
7fea4539c000-7fea453b2000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4625183
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fea453b2000-7fea455b2000 ---p 00016000 08:03 4625183
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fea455b2000-7fea455b3000 rwxp 00016000 08:03 4625183
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
7fea455b3000-7fea456fd000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4822269
/lib/libc-2.7.so
7fea456fd000-7fea458fd000 ---p 0014a000 08:03 4822269
/lib/libc-2.7.so
7fea458fd000-7fea45900000 r-xp 0014a000 08:03 4822269
/lib/libc-2.7.so
7fea45900000-7fea45902000 rwxp 0014d000 08:03 4822269
/lib/libc-2.7.so
7fea45902000-7fea45907000 rwxp 7fea45902000 00:00 0
7fea45907000-7fea45923000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 4822265
/lib/ld-2.7.so
7fea45b02000-7fea45b04000 rwxp 7fea45b02000 00:00 0
7fea45b1f000-7fea45b22000 rwxp 7fea45b1f000 00:00 0
7fea45b22000-7fea45b24000 rwxp 0001b000 08:03 4822265
/lib/ld-2.7.so
7fff4db0f000-7fff4db24000 rwxp 7ffffffea000 00:00 0
[stack]
7fff4dbfe000-7fff4dc00000 r-xp 7fff4dbfe000 00:00 0
[vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0
[vsyscall]
Aborted
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
And it continued to upgrade without a glitch. The update should have failed.
Moreover, memory corruption isn't nice, which is another bug.
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