Stack trace courtesy of Jan-Frode Myklebust

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x582df4b0 (LWP 6328)]
pw_val2scheme (val=0x0, valpwdp=0x582dea3c, first_is_default=1)
    at ldap/servers/slapd/pw.c:280
280     if ( *val != PWD_HASH_PREFIX_START ||
(gdb) bt
#0  pw_val2scheme (val=0x0, valpwdp=0x582dea3c, first_is_default=1)
    at ldap/servers/slapd/pw.c:280
#1  0x0ff250c0 in slapi_pw_find_sv (vals=0x108ba708, v=0x108ba7d8)
    at ldap/servers/slapd/pw.c:142
#2  0x0dd98594 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dirsrv/plugins/libipa_pwd_extop.so
#3  0x0ff1edc4 in plugin_call_exop_plugins (pb=0x108b8538, oid=0x0)
    at ldap/servers/slapd/plugin.c:393
#4  0x100143fc in do_extended (pb=0x108b8538)
    at ldap/servers/slapd/extendop.c:300
#5  0x1000f348 in connection_threadmain ()
    at ldap/servers/slapd/connection.c:562
#6  0x0f91ffc8 in _pt_root (arg=<value optimized out>)
    at ../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src/pthreads/ptthread.c:221
#7  0x0fd46e3c in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>)
    at pthread_create.c:299
#8  0x48106670 in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb)

Created attachment 310466 [details]
Fix for segfault

The first argument of slapi_pw_find_sv is an array not a pointer to a pointer.
We must terminate the array or we can search through the memory unitl we reach
the end of a segment and segfault.

Created attachment 310469 [details]
corrected patch

Created attachment 310476 [details]
also avoid memory leaks

ipa-1.1.0-3.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

ipa-1.1.0-4.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

ipa-1.1.0-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ipa'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-5896

I've upgraded to 1.1.0-4 for fedora 9 (x86_64) and am still having ns-slapd
crash during password changes.

# rpm -q ipa-server
ipa-server-1.1.0-4.fc9.x86_64

# uname -a
Linux ruff.flusche.co 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 15:58:30 EDT 2008
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x41992950 (LWP 9201)]
0x000000392fc808f0 in strcmp () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x000000392fc808f0 in strcmp () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007f95ec9dc093 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/dirsrv/plugins/libipa_pwd_extop.so
#2  0x00007f95ec9dd778 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/dirsrv/plugins/libipa_pwd_extop.so
#3  0x0000000000188f05 in plugin_call_exop_plugins (pb=0x1533f30, oid=0x150fc50
"1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.11.1")
    at ldap/servers/slapd/plugin.c:393
#4  0x000000000041698f in do_extended (pb=0x1533f30) at
ldap/servers/slapd/extendop.c:300
#5  0x0000000000412086 in connection_threadmain () at
ldap/servers/slapd/connection.c:562
#6  0x0000003ee8e29aa3 in _pt_root (arg=<value optimized out>) at
../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src/pthreads/ptthread.c:221
#7  0x000000393080729a in start_thread (arg=<value optimized out>) at
pthread_create.c:297
#8  0x000000392fce42cd in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6

ipa-1.1.0-3.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

ipa-1.1.0-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

ipa-1.1.0-4.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.