devel/libidn: warning when freeing memory

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 20:27, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:

> Am I the only one getting this? I just installed this straight from
> the ports. My system is

No, it's readily reproducable, on -STABLE, too. However, the bug seems to be 
dependent on the legnth of the string idn is being fed:

[lofi at kiste]:1:~ > idn a
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
idn in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense
a
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn ab
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
idn in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense
ab
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn abc
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
idn in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense
abc
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn abcd
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
abcd
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn abcde
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
abcde
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn abcdef
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
abcdef
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn abcdefg
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
abcdefg
[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > idn abcdefgh
libidn 0.4.2
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
idn in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense
abcdefgh

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