Bug 439450

Summary: memberOf: A circular grouping causes groups to be listed as memberOf themselves
Product: [Retired] 389 Reporter: Nathan Kinder <nkinder>
Component: Server - memberOf Plug-inAssignee: Nathan Kinder <nkinder>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Version: 1.1.0CC: andrey.ivanov, benl
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Fixed In Version: 8.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Nathan Kinder 2008-03-28 18:29:02 UTC 
If you create a circular grouping (two groups with each other listed as
members), then each group will have itself listed as the value of a memberOf
attribute.  We don't prevent someone from creating a circular grouping, but we
shouldn't list a group as a memberOf itself.
Comment 1 Nathan Kinder 2008-03-28 20:30:18 UTC 
To reproduce:

- Create the following two group entries:

  dn: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com
  objectclass: top
  objectClass: groupOfNames
  objectClass: inetUser
  cn: group1

  dn: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com
  objectclass: top
  objectClass: groupOfNames
  objectClass: inetUser
  cn: group2

- Make group2 a member of group1:

  dn: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com
  changetype: modify
  add: member
  member: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com

- Make group1 a member of group2:

  dn: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com
  changetype: modify
  add: member
  member: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com

- At this point, both groups will have themselves listed as a member:

  dn: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com
  member: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com
  memberof: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com
  memberof: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com

  dn: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com
  member: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com
  memberof: cn=group1,dc=example,dc=com
  memberof: cn=group2,dc=example,dc=com
Comment 2 Nathan Kinder 2008-03-28 21:07:08 UTC 
Created attachment 299521 [details]
CVS Diffs

When we are done recursing through a nested group, we finally update the group
entry itself.  Before doing any update to the group entry itself, we should
check to see if we're trying to do do an operation on the entry using itself as
the value for memberOf.  There was a similar check in the code already, but it
was only for a fixup operation for add modify operations.  This check needs to
be performed for all modify operation types earlier in the code.
Comment 3 Nathan Kinder 2008-03-28 21:46:15 UTC 
Checked into ldapserver (HEAD).  Thanks to Simo for his review!

Checking in memberof.c;
/cvs/dirsec/ldapserver/ldap/servers/plugins/memberof/memberof.c,v  <--  memberof.c
new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3
done
Comment 4 Nathan Kinder 2008-03-28 21:46:33 UTC 
Checked into FreeIPA as changeset 745.
Comment 5 Yi Zhang 2008-04-04 18:09:13 UTC 
qa verified, bug closed
build used: 4-4-2008 daily build
Comment 7 Chandrasekar Kannan 2009-04-29 23:03:27 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-0455.html