kismet crashed with SIGSEGV in feof()

Bug #409973 reported by Ryan
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #179233: kismet crashed with SIGSEGV in feof(). Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kismet

Looks like 179233, but diff kismet version, distro, and two years later - figured I'd enter to have new stack etc in, just in case that helps...

# kismet
Launching kismet_server: //usr/bin/kismet_server
Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure.
No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled.
Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on multi-vap interfaces (ie, madwifi-ng)
Enabling channel hopping.
Enabling channel splitting.
NOTICE: Disabling channel hopping, no enabled sources are able to change channel.
Source 0 (internal): Enabling monitor mode for iwl3945 source interface wlan0 channel 6...
Source 0 (internal): Opening iwl3945 source interface wlan0...
Will attempt to put networkmanager to sleep...
Allowing clients to fetch WEP keys.
WARNING: Disabling GPS logging.
Logging networks to /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Aug-06-2009-1.network
Logging networks in CSV format to /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Aug-06-2009-1.csv
Logging networks in XML format to /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Aug-06-2009-1.xml
Logging cryptographically weak packets to /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Aug-06-2009-1.weak
Logging cisco product information to /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Aug-06-2009-1.cisco
Logging data to /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Aug-06-2009-1.dump
Writing data files to disk every 300 seconds.
Mangling encrypted and fuzzy data packets.
Tracking probe responses and associating probe networks.
Reading AP manufacturer data and defaults from //etc/kismet/ap_manuf
Reading client manufacturer data and defaults from //etc/kismet/client_manuf
Using network-classifier based data encryption detection
Not tracking duplicate IVs
Putting networkmanager to sleep...
Dump file format: wiretap (local code) dump
Crypt file format: airsnort (weak packet) dump
Kismet 2008.05.R1 (Kismet)
Logging data networks CSV XML weak cisco
Listening on port 2501.
Allowing connections from 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
Registering builtin client/server protocols...
Registering requested alerts...
Registering builtin timer events...
Gathering packets...
Launched client, pid 4851
Launching kismet_client: //usr/bin/kismet_client
Looking for startup info from localhost:2501...... found.
Connected to Kismet server 2008.05.R1 on localhost:2501
Reading AP manufacturer data and defaults from //etc/kismet/ap_manuf
Reading client manufacturer data and defaults from //etc/kismet/client_manuf

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
ryan@lt:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
ryan@lt:~$ apt-cache policy kismit
W: Unable to locate package kismit
ryan@lt:~$ which kismet
ryan@lt:~$ apt-cache policy kismet
kismet:
  Installed: 2008-05-R1-4build1
  Candidate: 2008-05-R1-4build1
  Version table:
 *** 2008-05-R1-4build1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 6 10:25:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kismet
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kismet 2008-05-R1-4build1
ProcCmdline: kismet
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xc26e41 <feof+33>: cmp %edi,0x8(%edx)
 PC (0x00c26e41) ok
 source "%edi" ok
 destination "0x8(%edx)" (0x65656e28) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: kismet
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00c26e41 in feof () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0x0804913b in ?? ()
 #2 0x08049ad9 in ?? ()
 #3 0x00bdeb56 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #4 0x08048e81 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 feof () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: kismet crashed with SIGSEGV in feof()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
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Ryan (ubuntu-draziw) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:_IO_feof (fp=0x99bc008) at feof.c:37
reap (sig=0) at kismet_wrapper.cc:84
main (argc=1, argv=0xbfe5c804, envp=)

Revision history for this message
Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in kismet (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)
visibility: private → public
Bob Bib (bobbib)
tags: added: karmic
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