Bug#914315: libwebp-dev: New versions fix disclosed heap use-after-free

2021-03-16 Thread Laurence Parry
Tags: fixed-upstream Using webp-dev on buster with test file bug.c from the second bug mentioned above compiled with -lwebp, malloc reported: "free(): corrupted unsorted chunks" within WebPIDelete(). This suggests to me that the bug may be exploitable on systems with libwebp6 installed - of which

Bug#940105: linux: serious corruption issue with btrfs

2019-09-16 Thread Laurence Parry
I had a look at and it appears to have gone into both 5.3 (final) and 5.2.15. For what it's worth, it took only a day or so to exhibit the issue on our (admittedly active) nginx/postgres/PHP server; we weren't doing any unusual work during that time. If you're using btrfs, and you can't apply a pa

Bug#940105: linux: serious corruption issue with btrfs

2019-09-16 Thread Laurence Parry
We seem to have run into this yesterday on a production server sing a custom compile of the 5.2.9 buster-backports kernel. nginx was hung in D status, sync hung as well, no obvious reason for it; I ended up having to reset the machine. On boot I found we had lost several hours of logs and worse, s

Bug#910455: bitcoin FTBFS on 32bit: test failure

2019-07-01 Thread Laurence Parry
This bug was reported upstream here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/14580 It appears to be a GCC bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90348 The fix merged for the upcoming 0.19.0, 0.18.1 and 0.17.2 was to compile with -fno-stack-reuse: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pu