buffer overflow help

[zero7404]

ive noticed buffer overflow messages in my dmesg output and i want to figure out whats causing them but dont know how.

i have a list of event id's that have associated overflows:

1160
1170
1174

how do i find out which app is causing the overflows? a buffer overflow can be exploited, so this would be a security issue and can risk opening up android for an exploit ...



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[zero7404]

the actual messages are listed as evdev (event device) with the prefix event1- and then the 4 digit code.

these are related to either an app or process but cant find out, there is not enough info i can find on this topic.

maybe someone over in a linux forum may know ....

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[zero7404]

hard to believe no one on this forum has any background with android OS and what the buffer overflow issue might be ....

can someone who writes apps please chime in/help out ?

[jeffv2]

i saw yesterday the same question on ubuntu forums... anyway ill look into it.

[jeffv2]

the only thing i can think of would be to run ps & figure out what apps are running. maybe try a fresh install and narrow it down to system apps.. my phones not currently working, so i have no way to check any of this out.

[zero7404]

i saw yesterday the same question on ubuntu forums... anyway ill look into it.

that was probably me .... hit a brick wall over there too ...

[zero7404]

the only thing i can think of would be to run ps & figure out what apps are running. maybe try a fresh install and narrow it down to system apps.. my phones not currently working, so i have no way to check any of this out.

turns out one of the processes was Compass ... i installed it from android market. an app i got and never really used.

so i deleted it, cleared the sys log and restarting now to see what else appears ....

i totally forgot about ps, used to use it in ubuntu a while back. thanks for reminding me ....

EDIT: despite removing the app, seems to be still appearing as a different event id, another event id also appears. so there's one process that reports to /system/bin and the other that belongs to system_server ....

i think these are part of the android OS/system, not 100% sure.

[prime]

i saw yesterday the same question on ubuntu forums... anyway ill look into it.

that was probably me .... hit a brick wall over there too ...

look at the log, download catlog from market or type in a terminal 'su' then 'logcat -d *:E'

Do 'logcat -h' to see all codes (the *:E is for all errors).

[zero7404]

i saw yesterday the same question on ubuntu forums... anyway ill look into it.

that was probably me .... hit a brick wall over there too ...

look at the log, download catlog from market or type in a terminal 'su' then 'logcat -d *:E'

Do 'logcat -h' to see all codes (the *:E is for all errors).

thanks for this ... is there a way to get this output into a file so i can pull it up on a pc & look at it in detail ? easier to interpret that way ...

[prime]

If you want to write to disk.

logcat -d *:E > /sdcard/errorlog.txt