Bug 447881

Summary: nss_ldap security update breaks bash
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Frode Nordahl <frode>
Component: nss_ldapAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version: 5.2CC: dchuha, jplans, redhat, rh-bugzilla
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Description Frode Nordahl 2008-05-22 05:54:32 EDT 
Description of problem:
Child processes of bash have problems talking to the LDAP server. strace of a process shows that it 
attempts to reconnect to the LDAP server and fails. However, a strace of a process doing the same after 
downgrading does not show communication with the LDAP server at all.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nss_ldap-253-12.el5

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in as a user (not root) on a system using nss_ldap on a 32bit system
2. A=`echo hello`; echo $A
  
Actual results:
Blank output

Expected results:
hello

Additional info:
Downgrading to nss_ldap-253-5.el5 fixes the problem
Comment 1 David Chuha 2008-05-22 13:20:47 EDT 
I can confirm this after upgrading to nss_ldap-253-12.el5.  It also appears that
running nscd will work around the problem until the issue is resolved.
Comment 2 Stephen John Smoogen 2008-05-22 18:13:30 EDT 
In our environment, running nscd will allow for logins, but does not allow for su.
Comment 3 Jason Daly 2008-05-22 18:15:51 EDT 
I'm having similar issues.  After upgrading to RHEL 5.2, ordinary users can no
longer log in (X or console), although authentication seems to succeed.  A look
at /var/log/secure shows the session open, then immediately close.  Logging in
remotely via ssh produces an interactive session, but almost any shell command I
try (tcsh in this case) results in a "Broken pipe" error message.

Clients are configured to use ldaps to connect to the directory server. 
Downgrading the configuration to use plain ldap fixes the problem.  Downgrading
to nss_ldap-253-5.el5 also fixes the problem.
Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2008-05-28 18:09:48 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 448014 ***