Bug 743781

Summary: ldapsearch crashes with invalid prameters
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Dmitri Pal <dpal>
Component: openldapAssignee: Jan Vcelak <jvcelak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 6.1CC: dspurek, jplans, jvcelak, tsmetana
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Fixed In Version: openldap-2.4.23-21.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
- mutually exclusive options "-w" and "-W" were passed to any OpenLDAP client tools - the tool crashes with assertion error - applied upstream fix - the client tools refuse to start if mutually exclusive options "-w" and "-W" are passed on the command line
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Description Dmitri Pal 2011-10-06 02:04:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

ldapsearch -D "cn=Directory Manager" -b "dc=dpal,dc=redhat,dc=com" -w "password" -W


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name        : openldap
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.4.23
Release     : 19.el6


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the command above with real password
  
Actual results:
ldapsearch: ../../../clients/tools/common.c:1363: tool_bind: Assertion `passwd.bv_val == ((void *)0) && passwd.bv_len == 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)


Expected results:
mismatch or arguments is detected and -W option is either ignored or error is returned.

Additional info:
Comment 2 Jan Vcelak 2011-10-06 08:29:51 UTC 
Upstream report:
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=6849

Upstream fix:
http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=commit;h=d7a8eff
Comment 3 Jan Vcelak 2011-10-06 12:03:31 UTC 
Created attachment 526685 [details]
verified upstream patch
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2011-10-07 16:01:57 UTC 
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 9 Jan Vcelak 2012-03-01 10:56:54 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
- mutually exclusive options "-w" and "-W" were passed to any OpenLDAP client tools
- the tool crashes with assertion error
- applied upstream fix
- the client tools refuse to start if mutually exclusive options "-w" and "-W" are passed on the command line
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 07:29:06 UTC 
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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0899.html