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| From | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd |
| Date | 2016-02-28 06:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <r71Cx-5AH-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <r71Cy-5AH-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <r67An-6XN-29@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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Control: severity -1 important Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 gzip Control: tag -2 security On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:51 -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools-core > Version: 0.123 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > When using lsinitramfs to check the contents of an initrd: > > > root:~# lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2 > > /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-curly-0 > > kernel > > kernel/x86 > > kernel/x86/microcode > > kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin > > *** Error in `zcat': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000002236940 *** > > lsinitramfs runs fine on my AMD boxes. > > It seems that Ubuntu has at least two reports of this: see their bug > numberss 1541076 and 1507443. I don't see a Debian bug report on it, though. The crash is a bug in zcat. But presumably we are also not invoking it correctly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug
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Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd Ron Murray <rjmx@rjmx.net> - 2016-02-25 18:10 +0100
Processed: Re: Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-02-28 06:00 +0100
Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-02-28 06:00 +0100
Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> - 2016-03-30 13:00 +0200
Processed: Re: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-04-16 15:10 +0200
Bug#815915: initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-16 15:10 +0200
Bug#815915: marked as done (initramfs-tools-core: lsinitramfs causes zcat crash when Intel microcode is included in initrd) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-04-17 21:30 +0200
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