I'm hoping to get this fixed in noble - otherwise these tools will be
unusable for the lifecycle of this LTS. Below is the SRU template.
Please let me know if additional information is required.
[ Impact ]
The userspace processes lastcomm and dump-acct in the acct package are
currently unusable o
This bug was fixed in the package acct - 6.6.4-5ubuntu1
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acct (6.6.4-5ubuntu1) plucky; urgency=medium
* debian/patches/07_sprintf-buffer-overflow.patch: Fix buffer overflow in
dev_hash.c (LP: #2095035)
-- matthew.l.dai...@dartmouth.edu (Matthew L. Dailey) Mon, 17 Feb 2025
This fix has been sponsored to Plucky, with some slight changes to the
DEP-3 header.
If you're interested in a stable release update, could you please follow
the SRU process and re-subscribe Ubuntu Sponsors when you're ready?
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/sru/en/latest/
Thanks in advance!
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The attachment "1-6.6.4-5ubuntu1.debdiff" seems to be a debdiff. The
ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they
can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a
patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the
"patch" tag, a
This is a debdiff to fix the buffer overflow in dev_hash.c. This builds
successfully in pbuilder and fixes the bug in my testing.
** Patch added: "1-6.6.4-5ubuntu1.debdiff"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acct/+bug/2095035/+attachment/5858309/+files/1-6.6.4-5ubuntu1.debdiff
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You
It seems like this is a known issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2190057
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925419
Did a quick compile with the patch from Fedora and the problem seems to be
fixed:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/psacct/blob/aeac50dc448dcc172fa05b2847666afa
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: acct (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2095035
Title:
lastc
My browser refused to open the root crash dump but gave no error message about
why.
I'm attaching the user idallen crash dump.
** Attachment added: "/var/crash/_usr_bin_lastcomm.1000.crash"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acct/+bug/2095035/+attachment/5851923/+files/_usr_bin_lastcom
