Hello,
I’ve got a message:
mtr playboy.com -r -c 2
Start: 2022-12-05T11:24:32+0200
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
I do not know mtr but I installed it and see it is a nice utility combining ping and traceroute.
I see I have to run mtr with superuser privileges, likely because it needs special network access.
I can reproduce the problem but only with -r/–report
Following the instructions on Using systemd-coredump to debug application crashes I could run gdb for the core dump:
Core was generated by `mtr knmi.nl -r -c 2'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0 __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:44
Downloading 0.00 MB source file /usr/src/debug/glibc-2.36/nptl/pthread_kill.c
44 **return****INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P**(ret)?**INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO**(ret):0;
(gdb) where
#0 __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:44
#1 0x00007fbffcd0f873 in __pthread_kill_internal (signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at pthread_kill.c:78
#2 0x00007fbffccbc816 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:26
#3 0x00007fbffcca581c in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
#4 0x00007fbffcd0298e in __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fbffce2b206 "*** %s ***: terminated
") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:155
#5 0x00007fbffcda41ea in __GI___fortify_fail (msg=msg@entry=0x7fbffce2b1ac "buffer overflow detected") at fortify_fail.c:26
#6 0x00007fbffcda27d6 in __GI___chk_fail () at chk_fail.c:28
#7 0x00007fbffcda2395 in ___snprintf_chk (s=s@entry=0x7ffc78849f91 " ", maxlen=maxlen@entry=1024, flag=flag@entry=2, slen=slen@entry=991,
format=format@entry=0x7ffc78849e20 "%6s") at snprintf_chk.c:29
#8 0x000056029529824e in snprintf (__fmt=0x7ffc78849e20 "%6s", __n=1024, __s=0x7ffc78849f91 " ") at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:54
#9 report_close (ctl=ctl@entry=0x7ffc7884ae40) at ui/report.c:143
#10 0x0000560295299181 in display_close (ctl=ctl@entry=0x7ffc7884ae40) at ui/display.c:127
#11 0x0000560295293103 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ui/mtr.c:828
I am not experienced debugger but what I see is strange, the format string is “%6s”, the maxlen=1024 and it seems to me the string to be printed is 6 spaces. I do not see what is wrong with that.
A long time ago mtr (by Tumbleweed) stopped working in -r/report mode.
mtr -c 1 -r 8.8.8.8
Start: 2023-04-07T14:48:42+0200
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
I’ve compiled the same version (0.95) from GitHub - traviscross/mtr: Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool and got a good result.