iptraf crashes with all functions

[Yann Forget]

iptraf crashes with all functions.
I am unable to use the software at all.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: iptraf 3.0.0-7ubuntu0.11.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.53-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 17 21:13:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: iptraf
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-26 (236 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sergey (megaexception)]

Recently iptraf began to crash when any monitoring started.
I've captured strace output (due to ncurses tui, console output contains no useful information).
Interesting entries are:

writev(3, [{"*** ", 4}, {"stack smashing detected", 23}, {" ***: ", 6}, {"iptraf", 6}, {" terminated\n", 12}], 5) = 51

and

write(3, "======= Backtrace: =========\n", 29) = 29
writev(3, [{"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", 31}, {"(", 1}, {"__fortify_fail", 14}, {"+0x", 3}, {"37", 2}, {")", 1}, {"[0x", 3}, {"7f7943c927f7", 12}, {"]\n", 2}], 9) = 69
writev(3, [{"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", 31}, {"(", 1}, {"__fortify_fail", 14}, {"+0x", 3}, {"0", 1}, {")", 1}, {"[0x", 3}, {"7f7943c927c0", 12}, {"]\n", 2}], 9) = 68
writev(3, [{"iptraf", 6}, {"[0x", 3}, {"40e1d3", 6}, {"]\n", 2}], 4) = 17
writev(3, [{"iptraf", 6}, {"[0x", 3}, {"40efaf", 6}, {"]\n", 2}], 4) = 17
write(3, "======= Memory map: ========\n", 29) = 29

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

With the removal of iptraf from Debian unstable it's also been dropped from Zesty. Closing all iptraf bugs in Ubuntu as wontfix. As such, fixes in earlier releases are unlikely and it's best to move on to iptraf-ng.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

It would be great to see if iptraf-ng is affected by this problem as well. If so, us the "also affects distribution/package" button to add iptraf-ng to the list of affected packages in Ubuntu. Thank you for your testing.