[Bug 1389589] Re: lshw assert failure: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/lshw terminated

[JMB]

This bug affects me, too.
As user (WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate), it yields output an terminates correctly.
But 'su lshw' yields the crash and the reported error message:
   *** stack smashing detected ***: lshw terminated

I found the same behaviour with xpaint when moving a selected region and reported the bug:
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpaint/+bug/1440115
Maybe this is related and shows a general problem with Vivid - so I would be interested if others
can reproduce this bug, too.

It this is related, maybe this even affects security ... so an
experienced devoloper should look after that issue.

Regards,

JMB

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Title:
  lshw assert failure: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/lshw
  terminated

Status in lshw package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  My laptop started hanging on suspend every once in a while.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: lshw 02.17-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  AssertionMessage: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/lshw terminated
  Date: Wed Nov  5 10:25:35 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/lshw
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/lshw -xml -quiet
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
  Signal: 6
  SourcePackage: lshw
  StacktraceTop:
   __libc_message (do_abort=do_abort at entry=1, fmt=fmt at entry=0x7effc11564a6 "*** %s ***: %s terminated\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:175
   __GI___fortify_fail (msg=<optimized out>, msg at entry=0x7effc115648e "stack smashing detected") at fortify_fail.c:37
   __stack_chk_fail () at stack_chk_fail.c:28
   ?? ()
   ?? ()
  Title: lshw assert failure: *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/lshw terminated
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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