Bug 6758

stdp = p = tbuf + sprintf(tbuf, "<%d>%.15s ", pri, ctime(&now) + 4);

Sadly, the above line of syslog.c module is not thread-safe. ctime_r() shall be used.
My application crashed in uClibc with a segfault (in asctime/memcpy) when one thread does libc_fork() while another thread uses vsyslog() even though vsyslog() is protected by a mutex by the application.

I am compiling for ARM and configured uClibc for using LinuxThreads. I am using 0.9.30.1 but the bug seems to exist in all newer versions up to the latest library version (I looked at master branch and 0.9.33 via the source-code  browsing website).

The proposed solution is to replace the line by something like this:

char time_str[26];
stdp = p = tbuf + sprintf(tbuf, "<%d>%.15s ", pri, ctime_r(&now, time_str) + 4);

Cheers,
crayor