Bug 1021429

Summary: socat: getgroupent fails with large number of groups
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: socatAssignee: Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 7.0CC: gerhard, jaster, omoris
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Last Closed: 2018-11-13 10:57:39 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2013-10-21 09:33:34 UTC 
getusergroups() in sysutils.c is a potential performance hazard on a system with many groups (e.g., per-user groups over LDAP).  Use getgrouplist() instead.  This affects the "su-d" option.
Comment 3 Gerhard 2014-03-10 21:09:19 UTC 
Has been implemented in upstream release 1.7.2.4
Comment 6 Paul Wouters 2018-11-13 10:57:39 UTC 
This bug is addressed by ERRATA RHBA-2017:2049-03 socat bug fix update

https://errata.devel.redhat.com/advisory/26967