GNU bug report logs - #49209
coreutils: stack out-of-bounds write in tail --follow

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Kamil Dudka <kdudka <at> redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 49209-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka <at> redhat.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Stepan Broz <sbroz <at> redhat.com>,
 Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>,
 49209-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49209: coreutils: stack out-of-bounds write in tail --follow
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:10:00 +0200

On Sunday, June 27, 2021 3:47:46 AM CEST Paul Eggert wrote:
> When looking into this I decided it was cleaner to fix coreutils by
> using 'poll' instead of 'select', as Kamil suggested. I installed the
> attached patches to do that. The last patch fixes the bug.

This works for me.  Thank you for taking care of the fix!

Kamil
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