Bug 10036
| Summary: | finger segfaults with NIS and - entry in /etc/passwd | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Paul Wouters <paul> |
| Component: | finger | Assignee: | Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.2 | CC: | menthos |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-03-07 18:32:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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When there is a - entry in the passwd file, eg: -ftp that either has zero or one colon's on its line, finger segfaults Starting program: /usr/bin/finger test Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. strncpy (s1=0x804cdc0 "", s2=0x0, n=1024) at ../sysdeps/generic/strncpy.c:41 41 ../sysdeps/generic/strncpy.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 strncpy (s1=0x804cdc0 "", s2=0x0, n=1024) at ../sysdeps/generic/strncpy.c:41 #1 0x804a936 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30 #2 0x8049270 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30 #3 0x8049381 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30 #4 0x80490f7 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30 #5 0x4002e1eb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049000 <strcpy+204>, argc=2, argv=0xbffffd64, init=0x8048b94, fini=0x804b01c <strcpy+8424>, rtld_fini=0x4000a610 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffd5c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:90