ksniff assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: ksniff terminated

[Volodymyr Kolesnykov]

Binary package hint: ksniffer

KSniffer hangs when asked to start capturing and then crashes with assertion failure

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

$ apt-cache policy ksniffer
ksniffer:
  Installed: 0.3.2-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.3.2-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.2-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ksniffer 0.3.2-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-26.46-server 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-26-server x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: ksniff terminated
Date: Sat Feb 19 01:16:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ksniff
ProcCmdline: ksniff /tmp/kde-root/ksniffer.xml
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: ksniffer
StacktraceTop:
 raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
 abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=<value optimized out>, fmt=<value optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_fatal.c:189
 __fortify_fail (msg=0x7fe0e9cc1202 "buffer overflow detected") at fortify_fail.c:32
 __chk_fail () at chk_fail.c:29
Title: ksniff assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: ksniff terminated
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[Volodymyr Kolesnykov (sjinks)]

Could be aduplicate of the Bug 472971, but stacktrace is different. Also this one is for AMD-64 and different Ubuntu version.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 *__GI_raise (sig=<value optimized out>)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 __libc_message (do_abort=<value optimized out>,
 *__GI___fortify_fail (
 *__GI___chk_fail () at chk_fail.c:29

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported