Re: how to troubleshoot "buffer overflow detected"

On 2013.02.18 18:54, Jack wrote:
> This started with a web page I access which prints very poorly.  I =20
> wanted to use Amaya to see how and how badly the page was =20
> constructed.  Unfortunately, accessing the page directly requires =20
> logging on to the site with https, so I accessed the page in Firefox, =20
> and then saved a local copy.  When I try to open the local copy in =20
> Amaya 11.4.4, I get a "buffer overflow detected."  I see this =20
> reported in the mailing list against an earlier version [1].  I see =20
> even earlier (2009) mentions on coresecurity and fortiguard.   I have =20
> no idea whether what I'm seeing is the same as any of those reports, =20
> but I'd appreciate any suggestions on troubleshooting (either Amaya =20
> or the html).
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> Thanks for any advice or assistance.
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> Jack
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> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/2011JanMar/0002.html
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Thanks to Laurent for his support - and as part of troubleshooting this =20
problem, I realized my copy of Amaya had been compiled against =20
zlib-1.2.5, but I had 1.2.7 installed.  Compiling against 1.2.7 (which =20
took two simple patches) gave me a version which does not get the =20
buffer overflow - so I suppose now I'll have to go back to =20
troubleshooting my original problem with a badly designed web page.

I'll respond to my original thread about compiling problems with the =20
patches for using the new zlib.

Jack=