mtr on ubuntu 24.04 is broken when using -r option

[Alan Boey]

Have tried on 3 servers

root@orbit:/root#mtr -r 8.8.8.8
Start: 2024-06-14T07:49:44+0000
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted

#cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04 LTS"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: mtr 0.95-1.1build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-1008.9-gcp 6.8.4
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-1008-gcp x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Fri Jun 14 07:48:00 2024
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm
SourcePackage: mtr
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-06-05 (8 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apport: 2023-08-16T06:34:12.497648

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[theminertv (theminertv)]

Backtrace:

#0 __pthread_kill_implementation (no_tid=0, signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:44
#1 __pthread_kill_internal (signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:78
#2 __GI___pthread_kill (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:89
#3 0x00007ffff724526e in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:26
#4 0x00007ffff72288ff in __GI_abort () at ./stdlib/abort.c:79
#5 0x00007ffff72297b6 in __libc_message_impl (fmt=fmt@entry=0x7ffff73ce765 "*** %s ***: terminated\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:132
#6 0x00007ffff7336c19 in __GI___fortify_fail (msg=msg@entry=0x7ffff73ce74c "buffer overflow detected") at ./debug/fortify_fail.c:24
#7 0x00007ffff73365d4 in __GI___chk_fail () at ./debug/chk_fail.c:28
#8 0x00007ffff7337db5 in ___snprintf_chk (s=s@entry=0x7fffffffbce1 " ", maxlen=maxlen@entry=1024, flag=flag@entry=2, slen=slen@entry=991, format=format@entry=0x7fffffffbb70 "%6s") at ./debug/snprintf_chk.c:29
#9 0x0000555555563714 in snprintf (__fmt=0x7fffffffbb70 "%6s", __n=1024, __s=0x7fffffffbce1 " ") at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:54
#10 report_close (ctl=ctl@entry=0x7fffffffcaf0) at ../ui/report.c:143
#11 0x0000555555564c4d in display_close (ctl=ctl@entry=0x7fffffffcaf0) at ../ui/display.c:127
#12 0x000055555555ca77 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ../ui/mtr.c:828

[Collin Anderson (cmawebsite)]

This duplicate bug has a patch and more info: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtr/+bug/2071890

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "5908af4c19188cb17b62f23368b6ef462831a0cb.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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