Re: nessus crash on x86_64

On May 6, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Alexander Tsvyashchenko wrote:

>
> Hello Jose,
>
> I have exactly the same issue you've described (found your post  
> while googling for my problem).
>
> Your report was really helpful, as using it, I was able quickly to  
> localize the problem: basically, it seems that va_start should be  
> called not once, but before each invocation of vsnprintf, to reset  
> ''param'' to the appropriate value - I do not know why this was not  
> noticed before, probably, default buffer size is enough in all but  
> very extreme cases. In my configuration it happened only once per  
> nessus run that the loop was repeated - when formatting string with  
> plugins numbers, it seems (about 85,000 bytes length) - but it was  
> enough for crash.
>
> I do not have time to dig into it too much, but the following patch  
> has solved my crash and allowed me to execute nessus successfully  
> on my system. If you have not fixed the problem yourselves yet, you  
> can try it - I hope, it will work for you also!

Looks good -- thanks. If it indeed confirms that this solves bug#1546  
I'll release 2.2.10 this week.




				-- Renaud
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