Bug 2166544 - shadow-utils: uncontrolled process operation may result in a null pointer dereference
Summary: shadow-utils: uncontrolled process operation may result in a null pointer der...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2166545 2166546 2166547 2166548 2166549 2166550
Blocks: 2166312
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Reported: 2023-02-02 06:02 UTC by Sandipan Roy
Modified: 2026-03-02 23:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-02-08 07:28:46 UTC
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Description Sandipan Roy 2023-02-02 06:02:12 UTC 
In variadic functions we still do the cast. In POSIX, it's not necessary, since NULL is required to be of type 'void *', and 'void *' is guaranteed to have the same alignment and representation as 'char *'. However, since ISO C still doesn't mandate that, and moreover they're doing dubious stuff by adding nullptr, let's be on the cautious side. Also, C++ requires that NULL is not 'void *', but either plain 0 or some magic stuff.

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https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/642
https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/cpp/cpp-uncontrolled-process-operation/
Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2023-02-02 06:09:17 UTC 
Created shadow-utils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2166547]
Affects: fedora-37 [bug 2166548]
Comment 3 Marian Rehak 2023-02-20 14:52:52 UTC 
CVE-2023-0634 rejected now removing from flaw
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