Just confirmed on precise 12.04 root@testing:/home/ubuntu# cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS" root@testing:/home/ubuntu# dpkg -l | grep liblockfile ii liblockfile-bin 1.09-3 support binaries for and cli utilities based on liblockfile ii liblockfile1 1.09-3 NFS-safe locking library root@testing:/home/ubuntu# echo $BASHPID 1012680 root@testing:/home/ubuntu# lockfile-create /tmp/lockfile --use-pid *** buffer overflow detected ***: lockfile-create terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f14c2723817] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x109710)[0x7f14c2722710] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x108b79)[0x7f14c2721b79] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0xdd)[0x7f14c269513d] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x1ae7)[0x7f14c26634a7] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x94)[0x7f14c2721c14] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x7d)[0x7f14c2721b5d] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblockfile.so.1(+0x1b26)[0x7f14c29d9b26] /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblockfile.so.1(lockfile_create+0x61)[0x7f14c29d9dd1] lockfile-create[0x400f21] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f14c263a76d] lockfile-create[0x4012c5] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00402000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 4401 /usr/bin/lockfile-create 00602000-00603000 r--p 00002000 fd:01 4401 /usr/bin/lockfile-create 00603000-00604000 rw-p 00003000 fd:01 4401 /usr/bin/lockfile-create 0201a000-0203b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f14c2403000-7f14c2418000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2995 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f14c2418000-7f14c2617000 ---p 00015000 fd:01 2995 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f14c2617000-7f14c2618000 r--p 00014000 fd:01 2995 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f14c2618000-7f14c2619000 rw-p 00015000 fd:01 2995 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7f14c2619000-7f14c27ce000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 3071 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f14c27ce000-7f14c29cd000 ---p 001b5000 fd:01 3071 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f14c29cd000-7f14c29d1000 r--p 001b4000 fd:01 3071 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f14c29d1000-7f14c29d3000 rw-p 001b8000 fd:01 3071 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7f14c29d3000-7f14c29d8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f14c29d8000-7f14c29db000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 11024 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblockfile.so.1.0 7f14c29db000-7f14c2bda000 ---p 00003000 fd:01 11024 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblockfile.so.1.0 7f14c2bda000-7f14c2bdb000 r--p 00002000 fd:01 11024 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblockfile.so.1.0 7f14c2bdb000-7f14c2bdc000 rw-p 00003000 fd:01 11024 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblockfile.so.1.0 7f14c2bdc000-7f14c2bfe000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2944 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7f14c2df4000-7f14c2df7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f14c2dfb000-7f14c2dfe000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f14c2dfe000-7f14c2dff000 r--p 00022000 fd:01 2944 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7f14c2dff000-7f14c2e01000 rw-p 00023000 fd:01 2944 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7fff887f1000-7fff88812000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff88917000-7fff88918000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Aborted (core dumped)liblockfile1