you are right, but after disabling fortify, you get "stack smashing detected" error , so it's necessary to disable stack protector too to get working binary.
and ofcourse it's not a fix, it's just temporary workaround... *** stack smashing detected ***: ./nvram-wakeup terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb8047da8] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0xb8047d60] ./nvram-wakeup[0x8052d0e] ./nvram-wakeup[0x8049927] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7f60775] ./nvram-wakeup[0x8048cd1] ======= Memory map: ======== -- nvram-wakeup buffer overflow detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370261 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs