Your message dated Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:19:12 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1108549: fixed in procps 2:4.0.4-9
has caused the Debian Bug report #1108549,
regarding procps: w acts on value of uninit'd mem w/out systemd; poss segfault
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Package: procps
Version: 2:4.0.4-8
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Running 'w' as a non-root user on i386 segfaults:
$ gdb w
GNU gdb (Debian 16.3-1) 16.3
[...]
This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu".
[...]
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/w
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
23:21:56 up 4 min, 0 users, load average: 0.74, 1.06, 0.52
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
Download failed: Invalid argument. Continuing without source file ./src/w.c.
0x00401979 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at src/w.c:1130
warning: 1130 src/w.c: No such file or directory
This reliably reproduces in the failing environment but not when run as root or
on an amd64 host with kernel 6.12.27-1.
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 6.10.12-686 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.68
ii libc6 2.41-9
ii libncursesw6 6.5+20250216-2
ii libproc2-0 2:4.0.4-8
ii libsystemd0 257.6-1
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii linux-sysctl-defaults 4.12
ii psmisc 23.7-2
procps suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: procps
Source-Version: 2:4.0.4-9
Done: Craig Small <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
procps, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Craig Small <[email protected]> (supplier of updated procps package)
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:58:40 +1000
Source: procps
Architecture: source
Version: 2:4.0.4-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Craig Small <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Craig Small <[email protected]>
Closes: 1108549
Changes:
procps (2:4.0.4-9) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Craig Small ]
* d/changelog: Fix number for skill bug
.
[ Andrew Bower ]
* Initialise sessions variable in w. (Closes: #1108549)
* d/patches: get sessions even if !sd_booted()
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