[IRCServices Coding] Services' segfault

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Fri Feb 8 00:54:38 PST 2002


>Hello there,
>on our network we are using Services 4.5.38 (compiled for Unreal) connected to Unreal3.1.1-Darkshades.
>The server running services has just been victim of an attack, a syn flood I think, since it lagged and then splitted, and services just went down.
>
>This is the backtrace:
>Core was generated by `./services'.
>Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>/lib/libshow.so.0.9.5: No such file or directory.
>#0  0x4009cdc3 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
>(gdb) bt
[...]
>#6  0x805576e in close_db (f=0x8199b90) at datafiles.c:276
>#7  0x8062b26 in save_os_dbase () at operserv.c:341
>#8  0x8058d8b in main (ac=1, av=0xbffffca4, envp=0xbffffcac) at main.c:283

     This is bizarre, and looks like memory corruption; can you reproduce
it consistently?

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/