bug#1087: (forw) [BusyBox] bug found in tail: segmentation fault

[Mark Whitley]

Package: busybox
Version: 0.49pre
Severity: normal

Tail segfaults when it tries to read a file of 0 or 1 bytes.


Test Case:

$ touch empty
$ ./busybox tail empty 
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*:@@Zj@šªºÊÚê •
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@êúª
*:JZjzŠšªº|‰@Úêú«
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  l‡
  ƒ
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   Segmentation fault


Original bug report is attached.


Mark Whitley
markw at lineo.com
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