FS#51277 - [x11vnc] Application occasionally crashes with a "stack smashing detected" message

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Kamil Kozar (XAVeRY) - Friday, 07 October 2016, 21:40 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 07 October 2016, 23:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
There are some buffer overflows in the source that cause the server binary to occasionally exit after a few minutes of work. This issue has been documented as https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc/issues/27 .

Attached is a new PKGBUILD and a patch containing backports of relevant commits from the github repository for the package.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 07 October 2016, 23:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#49973 

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