Bug 1727152
| Summary: | glibc: Avoid nscd assertion failure during persistent db check | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Florian Weimer <fweimer> |
| Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Carlos O'Donell <codonell> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-tools-bugs |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.1 | CC: | ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mnewsome, pfrankli, skolosov |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Patch |
| Target Release: | 8.1 | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | glibc-2.28-70.el8 | Doc Type: | No Doc Update |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-11-05 21:29:05 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1684559 | ||
Verified by corrupting a record of /var/db/passwd file: on glibc-2.28-69.el8 nscd crashes: nscd: connections.c:307: check_use: Assertion `len >= 2' failed. Aborted (core dumped) on glibc-2.28-70.el8 nscd reports about invalid DB and continue works: invalid persistent database file "/var/db/nscd/passwd": verification failed Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513 |
We need to backport this upstream patch: commit 61595e3d36ded374f97961503e843a314b0203c2 Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab> Date: Tue May 15 14:42:37 2018 +0200 nscd: avoid assertion failure during persistent db check nscd should not abort when it finds inconsistencies in the persistent db.