Comment 8 for bug 389053

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Roberto Rosario (roberto-rosario-gonzalez) wrote : Re: libgcrypt11 version 1.4.4-2ubuntu1 causes stack smashing

I have a Sylvania Gnetbook with a VIA C7-M CPU and can confirm it's the via-rng module, however once loaded, further unloading the module does not make the problem go away.

As per the changelog, libgcrypt added something dealing with RNGs between versions 1.4.1 and 1.4.2rc1:

2008-07-05 Werner Koch <email address hidden>

        * random/: New.
        * Makefile.am (DIST_SUBDIRS): Add random.
        * configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_FILES): Add random/Makefile.

the file random/rndhw.c contains Padlock specific code and the failing function - poll_padlock()