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Bug 161471

Summary: krb5 krb5_principal_compare NULL pointer crash
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: krb5Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0Keywords: Security
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,embargo=20050712,source=vendorsec,reported=20050623
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-567 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-07-12 18:16:17 UTC Type: ---
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Proposed patch for this issue none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-06-23 16:36:13 UTC
Suse reported krb5 crashes while comparing principals using
"krb5_principal_compare" because it doesn't check for NULL pointers.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-06-23 16:36:13 UTC
Created attachment 115882 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-06-23 16:38:18 UTC
This issue may also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3.

I'm not completely sure what's all affected by this, if I have time later I'll
verify it.

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2005-07-12 17:58:26 UTC
removing embargo

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-07-12 18:16:17 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-567.html