Re: Net-SNMP 5.8.rc2 available for testing

On 2018/05/18 18:36, Robert Story wrote:
>     snmplib:
>       - [BUG 2815]: Display UTF-8 characters again
>       - [BUG 3444939]: BUG: 1796886: snmplib: Avoid that
>         sprint_realloc_octet_string() embeds unprintable control characters
>         or binary zeroes in its output. This behavior could cause truncated
>         output in snmptrapd.")

I think there's a problem with this change, with rc2 I'm seeing frequent
segfaults in walk/bulkwalk (one out of every 3 or 4 attempts to run it),
these don't occur with rc1 and sprint_realloc_octet_string() is in the
backtrace.

$ snmpwalk -v2c -c public 10.15.5.1
<...snip...>
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.3 = STRING: iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib_2.ipMIB.ipfMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.4 = STRING: iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib_2.snmp
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.5 = STRING: iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib_2.dot1dBridge
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.6 = STRING: iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib_2.host
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORDescr.7 = STRING: iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib_2.ifMIB

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_libc_strlcpy (dst=0x15ddceaf3070 "", src=0x15de4bd9e000 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x15de4bd9e000>, 
    dsize=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.c:45
45                      while (*src++)
(gdb) bt
#0  _libc_strlcpy (dst=0x15ddceaf3070 "", 
    src=0x15de4bd9e000 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x15de4bd9e000>, dsize=<optimized out>)
    at /usr/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.c:45
#1  0x000015de2f559fdc in sprint_realloc_octet_string (buf=0x7f7ffffe7220, buf_len=0x7f7ffffe7218, 
    out_len=0x7f7ffffe7210, allow_realloc=1, var=0x15de238e7800, enums=0x0, hint=0x15de50e25274 "", units=0x0)
    at mib.c:589
#2  0x000015de2f566028 in sprint_realloc_variable (buf=0x7f7ffffe7220, buf_len=0x7f7ffffe7218, 
    out_len=0x7f7ffffe7210, allow_realloc=1, objid=0x15de238e7830, objidlen=11, variable=0x15de238e7800)
    at mib.c:3581
#3  0x000015de2f56626d in fprint_variable (f=0x15dd9e658308 <__sF+152>, objid=0x15de238e7830, objidlen=11, 
    variable=0x15de238e7800) at mib.c:3653
#4  0x000015de2f5661c5 in print_variable (objid=0x15de238e7830, objidlen=11, variable=0x15de238e7800) at mib.c:3629
#5  0x000015db58a00fd1 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7f7ffffe81f8) at snmpwalk.c:338


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