Bug 137951
| Summary: | mail crashes on empty USER variable | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Need Real Name <frank.kruchio> |
| Component: | mailx | Assignee: | Jiri Ryska <jryska> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:06:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134837 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: The BSD-style /bin/mail application installed by mailx-8.1.1-22 generates segmentation faults when running from cron on an Enterprise Linux Team server (or in any other situation where the USER environment variable is unset). In particular the mail source code defines a function send() that interposes a libc function with the same name. If the USER environment variable is not set the code calls getpwuid() which, due to the involvement of LDAP in the environment, ultimately requires a call to the libc send() function. Mail's own send() function gets called instead, an uninitialized pointer is dereferenced and the segmentation fault occurs. Please investigate a solution for this problem. This may include patching the source code (renaming all functions that are also in libc as send() is not the only one); implementing a replacement mail package; or anything else that may solve this problem. The agreed solution should then be rolled out to all WIS servers that currently have the mailx package installed on them. n them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Update CD5, kernel release 2.4.9-41 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above. Actual Results: /bin/mail crashes Expected Results: mail sends mail and do not crash Additional info: Please ask for additional information if you need any.