Bug 106218 – useradd seg faults

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Bug 106218 - useradd seg faults

Summary:	useradd seg faults

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 89145

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	shadow-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2003-10-03 14:44 EDT by Bob T.
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:58 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-02-21 13:58:55 EST
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output of "strace useradd kde" (15.76 KB, text/plain) 2003-10-03 14:46 EDT, Bob T.	no flags	Details
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Description Bob T. 2003-10-03 14:44:10 EDT

Description of problem: 
useradd (without -D) segfaults


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.0.3-6



How reproducible:
Every time, and on two separate RH 9 boxes


Steps to Reproduce:
1.useradd anything
2.
3.
    
Actual results:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


Expected results:
new user


Additional info:
strace to be attached

Comment 1 Bob T. 2003-10-03 14:46:42 EDT

Created attachment 94918 [details]
output of "strace useradd kde"

Comment 2 Bob T. 2003-10-03 14:47:50 EDT

rpm -V shadow-utils  is empty

Comment 3 Bob T. 2003-10-07 10:35:39 EDT

After comparing my trace with the trace of a successful useradd on another RH9
box, I conjectured that useradd was incompatible with libsafe.  And indeed,
after unsetting LD_PRELOAD, useradd no longer segfaults.  But presumably there
is unsafe  
code in useradd, which is somewhat worrisome.

Comment 4 Enrico Scholz 2003-10-08 06:05:16 EDT

Sounds like a dup of bug #89145 (which has a patch)

Comment 5 Bob T. 2003-10-08 07:59:58 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89145 ***

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 13:58:55 EST

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.

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