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From: Roger Phillips <heidegg@hotmail.com>
To: "libc-help@sourceware.org" <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Subject: Getting more info about a heap corruption
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:21:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR06MB86417146389FD199D4F76B6CAA5AA@SJ0PR06MB8641.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

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Greetings,

currently I'm analysing a number of heap corruptions in a large application which usually results in a coredump and one of these malloc_printerr :

https://elixir.bootlin.com/glibc/glibc-2.31/source/malloc/malloc.c#L3744
malloc.c - malloc/malloc.c - Glibc source code (glibc-2.31) - Bootlin<https://elixir.bootlin.com/glibc/glibc-2.31/source/malloc/malloc.c#L3744>
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Problem is that variables needed for this check like victim, bck and next are optimized out and thus not accessible in gdb. Only av and its contents are accessible. I cannot use asan binaries as it is a production test. Changing environment variables is possible though.

So can you tell me if there is any sort of debugging functionality in glibc-2.31 that will show me those missing variables or narrow down the corrupted chunk?

Regards

             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-14  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-14  7:21 Roger Phillips [this message]
2023-06-14  9:24 ` Florian Weimer
2023-06-14 10:13   ` Roger Phillips
2023-06-14 10:17     ` Florian Weimer
2023-06-14 10:21       ` Roger Phillips

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