devel/ElectricFence 2.0.5p0 OpenBSD
library providing malloc debugging via VM protection
- System
- OpenBSD
- Repository
- OpenBSD ports
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
- Categories
- devel
Description
Electric Fence is a different kind of malloc() debugger. It uses the virtual memory hardware of your system to detect when software overruns the boundaries of a malloc() buffer. It will also detect any accesses of memory that has been released by free(). Because it uses the VM hardware for detection, Electric Fence stops your program on the first instruction that causes a bounds violation. It's then trivial to use a debugger to display the offending statement.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 2.2.2, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenBSD | devel/ElectricFence | 2.0.5p0 | no data | - | The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]> | - |
| FreeBSD | devel/ElectricFence | 2.2.2_3 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| DragonFly | devel/ElectricFence | 2.2.2_3 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | devel/ElectricFence | 2.2.2_3 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | devel/ElectricFence | 2.2.2_3 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg_add electricfence
From the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/devel/ElectricFence && make install
Dependencies
No port depends on this one.