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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6933: Inetd corrupting pointer. 
Message-ID:  <199806130020.RAA23740@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/6933; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: bicknell@ufp.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6933: Inetd corrupting pointer. 
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:12:58 -0700

 > 	Users connecting to inetd services (eg telnet, pop3) get the message
 > "inetd in free(), warning junk pointer, too low to make sense."  This was
 > traced to about line 1043 of /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c, in the ifree
 > function.  It appears inetd is corrupting a pointer, then passing it to free
 > triggering an error.
 > 
 > 	Once this state has been entered all additional inetd services exhibit
 > the same behavior.  Inetd must be restarted.
 
 This is a known problem, but to date no one has found just where the
 memory is being corrupted. :-(
 
 - Jordan

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