[asterisk-dev] "Issue #6439 - the "timebomb" bug. Patch by Markster over GPRS"

[Aaron Daniel]

Yeah, ours too :( Luckily we kept the old version on the box and had our 
system up and running in 30 minutes.

Aaron

Domjan Attila wrote:
> My x86_64 box was affected...
> 
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 04:06 -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:33:14AM +0100, Tamas wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> anybody knows any explanation of this issue? When it came into the
>>> system what was the problem?
>> the problem was an overflow in the computation of
>> a difference between two struct timeval, and it occurred
>> because one of the parameter was set to 0 instead of
>> a time in the vicinity of the current date.
>> Probably 64-bit machines were not affected.
>> The bug would come out with a period of roughly every 2^22 seconds,
>> which is not _that_ long. We were just lucky (or unlucky)
>> that it did not come out earlier.
>> On the other hand, for similar bugs, a missile (Ariane ?)
>> came down a few years ago, so we are not the first nor
>> the last to experience these things...
>>
>> cheers
>> luigi
>>
>>> Unfortunately some of our  call centers 'died' yesterday evening and we
>>> have to make some explanation to the customer.
>>>
>>> The given patch solved the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>     Tamas
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