** Changed in: psmisc (Ubuntu Precise)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
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Title:
killall can't kill processes with names >15
** Changed in: psmisc (Ubuntu Precise)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04.1
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Title:
killall can't kill processes with fairly long names (Ubuntu 1
Fixed in quantal with 22.16-1ubuntu1
** Changed in: psmisc (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** Also affects: psmisc (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: psmisc (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: psmisc (Ubun
I still have this bug
ps xa | grep myS
6615 pts/1S+ 0:00 /bin/bash ./myScript.sh
6619 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto myS
bss@Frog:~$ killall -v myScript.sh
Killed myScript.sh(6615) with signal 15
bss@Froggy:~$ ps xa | grep myS
6636 pts/1S+ 0:00 /bin/bash ./myScriptWithAL
I can confirm that compiling debian's fixed version under current ubuntu
12.04 successfully addresses the problem.
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Title:
killall can't kill proc
** Changed in: psmisc (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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Title:
killall can't kill processes with fairly long names (Ubuntu 12.04)
This regression was introduced by debian/patches/psmisc_strcpy_overflow
in 22.15-2. Debian released a fixed this regression with 22.16-1.
With only a quick glance it looks like a combination of at least 2
upstream commits, and possibly more, collectively fix this bug. More
investigation is needed.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privile
