restrictions inside GCC 4.6.x and libc6-2.13 (x86_64)

[Robert M. Stockmann]

Hi,

As i wanted to port some old source code [1] to the latest
ubuntu 11.10 x86_64 distribution i ran across a strange
observation :

[acer30:root]:(/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu)# spfqtool -i 192.168.2.5 -s stock@xxxxxxxxxxx -h stokkie.net
*** buffer overflow detected ***: spfqtool terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fb98f9537f7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xf7710)[0x7fb98f952710]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xf6dfb)[0x7fb98f951dfb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__snprintf_chk+0x78)[0x7fb98f951cd8]
/usr/lib/libspf-1.0.so.0(SPF_init+0x277)[0x7fb98fbfc8e7]
spfqtool[0x400afb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7fb98f87c30d]
spfqtool[0x400e1d]

[ ... ]"

This is also observed on ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 ..
When searching on google for this with 'spfqtool' omitted  :

*** buffer overflow detected ***:  terminated
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=***+buffer+overflow+detected+***%3A++terminated&oq=***+buffer+overflow+detected+***%3A++terminated&aq=f&aqi=g-v1g-b9&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5641l6824l0l8707l9l9l0l0l0l0l111l878l4.5l9l0

i get about About 820,000 results (0.08 seconds), which reach from the 
year 2009 upto 2011.  I really wonder what is the trouble here, as such 
old source, which has run many CPU cycles for the last 8 years, now 
suddenly has become buggy and prone to buffer overflows ...

Any suggestions on how to migrate 'old code' to the new Linux
platforms ?

Best Regards,

Robert
[1] libspf (www.libspf.org)
    http://crashrecovery.org/SPF/RPMS/spf/src/
    http://crashrecovery.org/SPF/RPMS/spf/src/libspf-1.0.0-RC6-pre10.tar.bz2
-- 
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org  stock@xxxxxxxxxxx

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