[Bug 1590994] Update Released
Brian Murray
brian at ubuntu.com
Thu Jun 23 18:31:39 UTC 2016
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Title:
[Regression] crash in scan_dmi_sysfs when running as non-root
Status in lshw:
Unknown
Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in lshw source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
lshw crashes when run as non-root:
Though it does warn before crashing that it should be run as super-
user, it should fail gracefully - not abort and dump core. A number of
users have been hitting this since the regression has been introduced:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/3ef7206b4102c14c8741b44fde30b21b4a571bbe
[Test Case]
ubuntu at lshw:~$ lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Aborted (core dumped)
[Regression Risk]
The fix I've proposed[*] only comes into play when lshw is about to crash, so regression risk should be minimal.
[*] https://github.com/lyonel/lshw/pull/14
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