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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0004317Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2017-10-24 20:252025-07-14 09:38
Reporterebeip90 Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version2017.2 
Summary0004317: GDB segfaults when using interactive Python interpreter
Description

On Kali 2017.02:

$ gdb -q
(gdb) pi

1
Segmentation fault

Occasionally you'll also see:

1
Error in `gdb': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007ff4d4da59c0
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x70bfb)[0x7ff4da463bfb]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x76fc6)[0x7ff4da469fc6]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so.1.0(PyOS_Readline+0xec)[0x7ff4db7d116c]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so.1.0(+0x70686)[0x7ff4db7d2686]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so.1.0(+0x72158)[0x7ff4db7d4158]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so.1.0(PyTokenizer_Get+0x9)[0x7ff4db7d5029]

Steps To Reproduce

Install GDB. Open the interactive Python prompt via "pi", and do pretty much anything.

Full instructions / Dockerfile here: https://gist.github.com/zachriggle/9214d4f3b9d8e2a5045278c14b0a088f

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g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2018-05-05 19:08

administrator   ~0009114

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling 2016.x/2017.1/2017.2), these legacy versions are no longer supported.
We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing,and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-10-24 20:25 ebeip90 New Issue
2018-02-21 09:50 g0tmi1k Category Kali Package Bug => General Bug
2018-05-05 19:08 g0tmi1k Status new => closed
2018-05-05 19:08 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2018-05-05 19:08 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0009114
2025-07-14 09:38 g0tmi1k Severity crash => minor