Hello Dave, A Debian user, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors(a)iki.fi&gt;, reported this issue that and delivered the patch to resolve it. The original strcpy is being called with overlapping arguments because it is expecting an additional version number. Troy --- diff -urpN -urN ori/kernel.c new/kernel.c --- ori/kernel.c 2013-08-01 11:40:01.299157220 -0600 +++ new/kernel.c 2013-08-01 11:42:12.506364789 -0600 @@ -218,21 +218,29 @@ kernel_init() strncpy(buf, kt->utsname.release, MIN(strlen(kt->utsname.release), 65)); if (ascii_string(kt->utsname.release)) { + char separator; + p1 = p2 = buf; while (*p2 != '.') p2++; *p2 = NULLCHAR; kt->kernel_version[0] = atoi(p1); p1 = ++p2; - while (*p2 != '.') + while (*p2 != '.' && *p2 != '-' && *p2 != '\0') p2++; + separator = *p2; *p2 = NULLCHAR; kt->kernel_version[1] = atoi(p1); - p1 = ++p2; - while ((*p2 >= '0') && (*p2 <= '9')) - p2++; - *p2 = NULLCHAR; - kt->kernel_version[2] = atoi(p1); + *p2 = separator; + if (*p2 == '.') { + p1 = ++p2; + while ((*p2 >= '0') && (*p2 <= '9')) + p2++; + *p2 = NULLCHAR; + kt->kernel_version[2] = atoi(p1); + } else { + kt->kernel_version[2] = 0; + } if (CRASHDEBUG(1)) fprintf(fp, "base kernel version: %d.%d.%d\n",