Electric Fence - still reliable?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 21:07:04 UTC 2009


Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is
more likely that these are false positives or real bugs?
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$ gnome-terminal

  Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

 ==> in ORBit corba-any.c


$ geeqie

  Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>
Geeqie 1.0beta2, This is an alpha release.
Could not init LIRC support

ElectricFence Aborting: free(86c6e00): address not from malloc().
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

 ==> in glib2 gslice.c


$ gnome-calculator

  Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

 ==> in ORBit iop-profiles.c


$ audacious

  Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>

** (audacious:2106): WARNING **: Could not open file:///home/misc/.adplug/adplug.db for reading or writing: Error opening file: No such file or directory

ElectricFence Aborting: free(910c700): address not from malloc().
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

 ==> gtkicontheme.c -> glib2 gsplice.c


$ gnote

  Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>

ElectricFence Aborting: free(91d1600): address not from malloc().
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

 ==> ? (didn't wait in ABRT for further 32 debuginfos to download)




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