Re: ProFTP 1.2.0pre4 patch in CVS tree (terminates on signal 11)

[bsmith@bfmni.com (Brad Smith)]

I had segfaults in anything before pre4 when authenticating on my systems
but it seems to have gone away with pre4, I'll take a look into the problem,
could you send me the ktrace output ?

// Brad

> Unless you really need a feature provided by ProFTPD that isn't provided
by
> OpenBSD's ftpd (see the ftpd man page for a list of these), you are better
> off going with the OpenBSD ftpd, as it has been audited for security!  The
> recent problems with ProFTPD show that it has not received any such
auditing.
>
> Anyways, this sig11 may be because of ProFTPD's bad handling of
setproctitle
>
> There is a patch floating around for it...
>
> --- src/main.c.orig     Sun Aug 22 13:30:08 1999
> +++ src/main.c  Sun Aug 22 13:30:20 1999
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
>    vsnprintf(statbuf, sizeof(statbuf) - 1, fmt, msg);
>
>  #ifdef HAVE_SETPROCTITLE
> -  setproctitle(fmt,msg);
> +  setproctitle(statbuf);
>  #endif /* HAVE_SETPROCTITLE */
>
>    va_end(msg);
>
>  |
>  | I have problems with the ProFTPD update from the ports tree. Has anyone
>  | else experienced segfaults?
>  |
>  | Authentication works fine, but it segfaults when you try to issue a
>  | command, e.g.
>  |
>  | telnet ftp.bogus.net 21
>  | Trying 193.214.208.178...
>  | Connected to redlance.bogus.net.
>  | Escape character is '^]'.
>  | 220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre4 Server (ftp.bogus.net) [redlance]
>  | user ftp
>  | 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>  | pass foo@bar.com
>  | 230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
>  | list
>  | Connection closed by foreign host.
>  |
>  |
>  | At this point, it crashes:
>  |
>  | Sep  2 12:16:46 redlance proftpd[3991]: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
>  | Sep  2 12:16:46 redlance proftpd[3991]: ProFTPD terminating (signal 11)
>  |
>  | I'd include some ktrace output, but it's a) full of messy tab's and b)
>  | somewhat long.
>  |
>  | I am running it on a 2.3 (x86) machine.
>  |
>  | Any help appreciated.
>  |
>  | Tor.