amsynth 1.2.0 crashes in "recent" Ubuntu (fixed in 2009 in upstream)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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amsynth (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Karmic |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: amsynth
Hit this in 9.10. See upstream news blurb for 1.2.1 release, 2009/04/08: "fixed a buffer overflow crash, which prevented running on recent ubuntu versions". By crash they mean something like this:
$ amsynth -a oss
amSynth 1.2.0
Copyright 2001-2006 Nick Dowell and others.
amSynth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
<OSSAudioDriver> error writing to dsp_handle_: Success
*** buffer overflow detected ***: amsynth terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.
...and so on through the bowels of libc and other such. -a alsa was little if any different, that's fallen off the scrollback.
The patch is available since Lucid.