Bug 29096 - getaddrinfo segfaults when service arg is a NULL pointer
Summary: getaddrinfo segfaults when service arg is a NULL pointer
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 25437
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-23 17:21 UTC by CoreDump
Modified: 2016-11-24 14:52 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-02-23 17:21:44 UTC
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Description CoreDump 2001-02-23 17:21:40 UTC
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        char *host;
        int result;
        struct addrinfo *res = NULL;

        if (argc != 2)
                return 1;
        host = argv[1];

        /* Following line directly copied from dighost.c:2546 from 9.1.0b2
*/
        result = getaddrinfo(host, NULL, NULL, &res);

        printf("getaddrinfo returned %d\n", result);
        if (result)
                printf("Error was: %s\n", gai_strerror(result));
        else
                printf("IP: %s\n",
                        inet_ntoa(((struct sockaddr_in *)(res->ai_addr))
                                ->sin_addr));

        return 0;
}


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.gcc -o test test.c
2.gdb test
3.run anything


Actual Results:  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
gaih_inet (name=0xbffffb97 "anything", service=0x0, req=0x4013a380, 
    pai=0xbffff99c) at ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:424


Expected Results:  getaddrinfo returned -2
Error was: Name or service not known



This bug affects nslookup and dig from the bind-utils package.
You can also reproduce it by
#nslookup anything - anything
or
#dig @anything

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2001-02-23 21:07:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25437 ***


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