How To Install memstomp on Fedora 34

memstomp is Warns of memory argument overlaps to various functions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install memstomp on Fedora 34.

What is memstomp

memstomp is a simple program that can be used to identify places in code which trigger undefined behavior due to overlapping memory arguments to certain library calls.

We can use yum or dnf to install memstomp on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install memstomp.

Install memstomp on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install memstomp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install memstomp

Install memstomp on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install memstomp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install memstomp

How To Uninstall memstomp on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the memstomp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove memstomp

memstomp Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/memstomp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/96c7429772d49adbafe968a0f260a89f554f1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/c2dae91276be9a80d9a7efcea07f78aaed68be
/usr/lib64/libmemstomp-backtrace-symbols.so
/usr/lib64/libmemstomp.so
/usr/share/doc/memstomp
/usr/share/doc/memstomp/GPL2
/usr/share/doc/memstomp/GPL3
/usr/share/doc/memstomp/LGPL3
/usr/share/doc/memstomp/README
/usr/share/man/man1/memstomp.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install memstomp on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.