Comment 4 for bug 368127

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Steven Black (blacks-indiana) wrote :

It looks like wiki.t-o-m-e.net is currently off-line.

Worst case this patch should be easy to recreate.

There's a buffer overflow in the save-game logic. Since it only happened saving the game, and most folks save the game before they quit, folks never noticed the buffer overflow... until Valgrind became the default with Ubuntu.

If you build the code from source (with debugging symbols) and run gdb on it it should point you to the source of the error. To reproduce the problem all you need to do is create a new game and try to immediately save it.

I've had some issues with some of my hardware since I commented on this ticket and I'm fairly certain I no longer have the original patch on any of my systems.

This should be a straight-forward process, so I'm going to try it myself and whip up a patch.