Bug 603692 - faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID
Summary: faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 5.5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Depends On: 603683
Blocks: 603691
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Reported: 2010-06-14 11:22 UTC by Peter Vrabec
Modified: 2011-01-13 23:28 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, the command "faillog" failed to print the User Identification (UID) when the faillog file was empty. This update prints the UID of the users who had a login failure and no more underflow occurs.
Clone Of: 603683
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-01-13 23:28:05 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0094 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE shadow-utils bug fix update 2011-01-12 17:21:26 UTC

Description Peter Vrabec 2010-06-14 11:22:09 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #603683 +++

Description of problem:
Integer underflow happens on x86_64 in faillog command when /var/log/faillog is empty file:
if (offset <= (statbuf.st_size - sizeof (fl))) 

How reproducible:
remove /var/log/faillog
touch /var/log/faillog
run faillog

  
Actual results:
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 0
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 1
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 2
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 3
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 4
faillog: Failed to get the entry for UID 5
...

Expected results:
Display only list of user faillog records who have ever had a login failure.

Comment 4 Florian Nadge 2011-01-03 16:03:51 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the command "faillog" failed to print the User Identification (UID) when the faillog file was empty. This update prints the UID of the users who had a login failure and no more underflow occurs.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 23:28:05 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 therefore 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/RHBA-2011-0094.html


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