id3lib stack smashing

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 11/12/2009 01:39 PM, Adrian Reber wrote:
> There is ubuntu bug report against id3lib "libid3 crashes (stack
> smashing) when reading VBR MP3 file"[1]. I am able to reproduce this on
> ubuntu but not on Fedora and I do not understand why. The patch[2] looks
> like it is doing the right thing but there is not stack smashing detected
> using the Fedora version (even on ubuntu). I have looked at the ubuntu
> build logs[3] and it uses completely different compiler flags. Is one of
> those flags the reason for not seeing the stack smashing on Fedora?

It's possible, but that patch looks obviously correct.

~spot