Bug 440036

Summary: logrotate doesn't prevent recursive includes
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: logrotateAssignee: Daniel Novotny <dnovotny>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.6CC: azelinka, rvokal
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Fixed In Version: logrotate-3.7.1-11.RHEL4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 574784 (view as bug list) Environment:
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recursion depth counter backported from newer logrotate none

Description Milos Malik 2008-04-01 14:34:09 UTC 
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Description of problem:
During processing of a configuration file logrotate doesn't check whether the included file isn't the same. It leads to segmentation fault.

During processing of a configuration file logrotate doesn't check whether the included directory isn't the same as the directory of that file. It leads to logrotate infinite loop.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logrotate-3.7.1-8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. write "include /etc/logrotate.d/syslog" on the 1st line of /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file
2. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate


Actual Results:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: line 3:  8634 Segmentation fault      /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf


Expected Results:
Some message which warns you about recursive includes and skipping the file.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tomas Smetana 2008-04-03 08:56:44 UTC 
The segmentation fault seems to have the same cause as in the bug #440202. 
However the detection of recursive includes might be an useful feature.
Comment 3 Daniel Novotny 2010-03-18 15:15:52 UTC 
Created attachment 401041 [details]
recursion depth counter backported from newer logrotate
Comment 4 Daniel Novotny 2010-03-23 12:21:14 UTC 
fixed in logrotate-3.7.1-11.RHEL4
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-31 07:48:28 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/RHBA-2010-0334.html