Ubuntu
arping package

segmentation fault

Bug #520464 reported by Vincenzo Di Somma
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arping (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: arping

Not much to say, on karmik if I run:

$ sudo arping 00:21:70:70:16:93
Segmentation fault

$ apt-cache show arping
Package: arping
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Giuseppe Iuculano <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.08-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libnet1 (>= 1.1.2-1), libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.3-1)
Conflicts: iputils-arping, iputils-ping (<< 20001110-6)
Filename: pool/universe/a/arping/arping_2.08-1_i386.deb
Size: 23524
MD5sum: 0074201e20bca24b9ea06ca927224f26
SHA1: e61853262c88ab4c458325cd2b1385614c3fd338
SHA256: 28ab879cd3210b2886037fc1f30898d83082c4bec0f0d4409fb284512d677985
Description: sends IP and/or ARP pings (to the MAC address)
 The arping utility sends ARP and/or ICMP requests to the specified host
 and displays the replies. The host may be specified by its hostname,
 its IP address, or its MAC address.
Homepage: http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Thanks for your report. Is this still happening? If so, please run "apport-collect 520464".

Changed in arping (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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David Nesting (dnesting) wrote :

I'm hitting this bug as well. The only thing special about my system is that I use KVM to virtualize some machines beneath it. This results in some additional less common network interfaces, a couple of bridges, and removes IPv4 addresses from the eth interfaces.

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David Nesting (dnesting) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: arping 2.08-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.63-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-server x86_64
UserGroups: libvirtd

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David Nesting (dnesting) wrote : Dependencies.txt
Changed in arping (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
tags: added: apport-collected
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David Nesting (dnesting) wrote :

From an strace:

open("/proc/net/dev", O_RDONLY) = 5
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFCONF, {80, {{"lo", {AF_INET, inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, {"br0", {AF_INET, inet_addr("10.0.0.2")}}}}) = 0
fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fda7fef2000
read(5, "Inter-| Receive "..., 1024) = 1024
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="lo", ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_LOOPBACK|IFF_RUNNING}) = 0
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_RUNNING|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0
...
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="vnet1", ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_RUNNING|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0
ioctl(4, SIOCGIFADDR, {ifr_name="vnet1", ???}) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address)
read(5, "", 1024) = 0
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x7fda7fef2000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

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Thomas Habets (p-thomas-8) wrote :

This bug is reported on a 6 year old version of arping. Please try to reproduce with a never version, or run with -vvvvv to increase verbosity.

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