From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752121AbZHIRdE (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:33:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751402AbZHIRdD (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:33:03 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:28321 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbZHIRdB (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:33:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WFjreeCtP+tyysGeUt+7oRUUwLH430sE2e/nGjkX4odAJWR3MShpMBjLhYQLRtK6I0 tSV+rJGFXPny/gQxv3iDKwIS6JdRQvkdIYWECseRlN8Mvy/EJVBYDVH20GYzio1b/5QQ i+5Ouu3/4H/7bPBkWjrAj852VfgCsuSygXK+8= Message-ID: <4A7F085C.6080204@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:33:16 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Spicebird/0.7.1 (X11; 2009031304) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: *** stack smashing detected ***: ./firefox-bin terminated References: <4A7F04B2.5000201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A7F04B2.5000201@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robert Hancock wrote: > On 08/08/2009 04:31 PM, Justin Mattock wrote: >> How should I handle this: >> >> *** stack smashing detected ***: ./firefox-bin terminated >> ======= Backtrace: ========= >> /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f765ab2a477] >> /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7f765ab2a440] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f7646911a6f] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764690d67c] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764691077f] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76469090cd] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466f95e0] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466f9c1d] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466bd944] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466c738b] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466af3e1] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f76466a4af0] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764638ed29] >> /home/name/LFS/net/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so[0x7f764637edaf] >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7f765bbd477b] >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x22e)[0x7f765bbd320e] >> >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7f765bbd3958] >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x70)[0x7f765bbd3b40] >> >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765efd07a1] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765efd0b71] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765f08ea79] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765f0628bd] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765efd0883] >> ./libxul.so[0x7f765eeaadaf] >> ./libxul.so(XRE_main+0x213f)[0x7f765e812149] >> ./firefox-bin[0x401bc0] >> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xec)[0x7f765aa65a4c] >> ./firefox-bin[0x4019b9] >> >> even if I move the firefox package to /usr/lib64 >> this still occurs. >> >> I would like to keep stack protection, >> but having firefox crash over any flash content >> is unattractive. > > Use nspluginwrapper, then Flash will run in a separate process and it > won't crash Firefox when it crashes (which it does fairly regularly). > >> >> should I try firefox about this, or change something in the kernel? > > Nothing to do with the kernel, it's glibc's stack corruption detection > that's being triggered. > Cool thanks for that. at the moment I was thinking nss, nspr were the causes since I had not put them into the system yet.(nor do I really want to compile that mess). I'll try nsplugginwrapper and see what happens. (and leave the stack protection on). Justin P. Mattock