Bug 1321861 - glibc: "getent group" listing using nss_db fails when entries are long
Summary: glibc: "getent group" listing using nss_db fails when entries are long
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian Weimer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1318890
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-29 09:32 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2016-05-15 04:52 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.22-15.fc23, glibc-2.23.1-7.fc24
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 1318890
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-15 04:52:31 UTC
Type: Bug
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Sourceware 19837 0 None None None 2016-03-29 09:32:52 UTC

Description Florian Weimer 2016-03-29 09:32:53 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1318890 +++

Description of problem:
The client discovered this when testing with RHEL7 against a sizable groups.db file. The 'getet groups' list was truncated and was missing most entries. Florian had a look and submitted the following upstream patch which was tested to resolve the issue:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19837
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2016-05-07 17:18:48 UTC 
glibc-2.22-15.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-68abc0be35
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-05-08 16:25:03 UTC 
glibc-2.22-15.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-68abc0be35
Comment 3 Florian Weimer 2016-05-09 09:02:47 UTC 
Fixed with this new 2.23 backport:

commit 28a87e027450b66faf1a431fc62779297c760e29
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Date:   Tue Mar 29 11:27:32 2016 +0200

    nss_db: Propagate ERANGE error if parse_line fails [BZ #19837]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-05-09 14:57:15 UTC 
glibc-2.23.1-6.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b321728d74
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-05-10 17:57:11 UTC 
glibc-2.22-15.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-05-10 20:30:24 UTC 
glibc-2.23.1-6.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b321728d74
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-05-11 13:55:44 UTC 
glibc-2.23.1-7.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b321728d74
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-05-12 09:44:19 UTC 
glibc-2.23.1-7.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b321728d74
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-05-14 23:30:15 UTC 
glibc-2.23.1-7.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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