Bug 1021429 - socat: getgroupent fails with large number of groups
Summary: socat: getgroupent fails with large number of groups
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: socat
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Paul Wouters
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks: 1019961 1085024
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Reported: 2013-10-21 09:33 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2018-11-13 10:57 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 1.7.3.1-1
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Last Closed: 2018-11-13 10:57:39 UTC
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Description Florian Weimer 2013-10-21 09:33:34 UTC 
getusergroups() in sysutils.c is a potential performance hazard on a system with many groups (e.g., per-user groups over LDAP).  Use getgrouplist() instead.  This affects the "su-d" option.
Comment 3 Gerhard 2014-03-10 21:09:19 UTC 
Has been implemented in upstream release 1.7.2.4
Comment 6 Paul Wouters 2018-11-13 10:57:39 UTC 
This bug is addressed by ERRATA RHBA-2017:2049-03 socat bug fix update

https://errata.devel.redhat.com/advisory/26967
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