Re: [cobalt-security] chown segfaults with option --from on Raq550

[Michael Stauber <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Menno,

> chown segfaults and I don't know why, I tried this on several Raq550's.
> When I use chown from debian woody, it works like a charm.

I just tried it on my RaQ550 and I can reproduce the segfault when I run 
"chown admin * --from=root". That's a nasty one.

Here is a trace of the event:

#> gdb /bin/chown core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols 
found)...
Core was generated by `chown admin xxx --from=nobody'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x0804aae9 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
30      ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c: No such file or directory.
        in ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c


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With best regards,

Michael Stauber