Memory Overflow Bug
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Since Sep 9, 2025.
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- Rust
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Description
Testing Summary for DRE Tool
Successfully installed the dre tool (versions 0.6.5 and 0.6.4), but encountered a critical bug preventing its use:
Installation Success ✅
Downloaded and installed dre v0.6.5 and v0.6.4 for x86_64 macOS
Binaries are correctly formatted and executable
Help commands work perfectly
Issue ❌
Memory Overflow Bug: Both versions crash with "capacity overflow" errors when trying to perform any network operations
Response I get:
thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at /rustc/05f9846f893b09a1be1fc8560e33fc3c815cfecb/library/alloc/src/raw_vec.rs:554:17:
capacity overflow
What Works
dre --version ✅
dre --help ✅
dre [command] --help ✅
Command structure exploration ✅
What Fails
Any actual network operations (get, subnet commands, etc.) ❌
ic-admin version management ❌
Network topology queries ❌
Computer specs:
- 2018 MacBook Pro
- Processor: 2,6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
- Graphics: Radeon Pro 560X 4 GB
- Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
- Memory: 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
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