From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31smp i686) Description of problem: Finger core dumps when there is a blank field in the password file. foobar:x:5165:5166::/home/foobar:/bin/bash will cause a segfault. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.creat user foobar:x:5165:5166::/home/foobar:/bin/bash 2.type finger user Actual Results: [root@lacrosse /home]# finger foobar Segmentation fault Expected Results: Login: foobar Name: (null) Directory: /home/foobar Shell: /bin/bash Never logged in. No mail. No Plan. Additional info:
Works in all our current releases starting from 7.0. As this is not an otherwise critical or security bug i'd recommend to either updated the finger package to a newer release (from e.g. 7.0) or to completely updated the 6.2 box to a newer release as 6.2 will be unsupported soon. Read ya, Phil