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Bug 1043557

Summary:	nscd segfaults when running sudo with netgroup caching enabled.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	hgraham
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Arjun Shankar <ashankar>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.5	CC:	aglotov, alanm, ashankar, bhubbard, codonell, cwfox, dkochuka, fweimer, hgraham, jherrman, jkurik, law, mfranc, mnewsome, mschuppe, m.weiser, pablo.iranzo, pfrankli, spoyarek
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Reopened, ZStream
Target Release:	6.6
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.12-1.133.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Due to problems with buffer extension and reallocation, the nscd daemon terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when processing long netgroup entries. With this update, the handling of long netgroup entries has been corrected and nscd no longer crashes in the described scenario.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	1138520 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-10-14 04:42:37 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	994246, 1023566, 1054846, 1056252, 1087789

Description hgraham 2013-12-16 16:09:26 UTC

Description of problem:
After upgrading to RHEL6.5 nscd segfaults when a user runs sudo. It appears the problem is due to netgroup caching by nscd. The netgroups are stored in LDAP.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nscd-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
I haven't reproduced, but this is happening on multiple servers for the customer

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Need to use sudo with nscd netgroup caching and netgroups stored in LDAP

Actual results:
nscd segfaults when running sudo

Dec 13 08:54:28 server kernel: nscd[11646]: segfault at 7fffe54ed000 ip 00007ffff6e32aab sp 00007fffe54e98e8 error 6 in libc-2.12.so[7ffff6da9000+18b000]

Expected results:
nscd doesn't segfault when running sudo


Additional info:
possible workaround may be to disable netgroup caching by nscd

Comment 20 Carlos O'Donell 2013-12-20 19:04:58 UTC

The solution in this case is to upgrade nss nss-tools and nss-sysinit. NSS is used by glibc for hashing functions and there are bugs in nss* that impact glibc and nscd.

Comment 65 Siddhesh Poyarekar 2014-04-15 14:15:18 UTC

*** Bug 1087838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 67 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 04:42:37 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-2014-1391.html