Bug 81438 - nss_ldap segfaults on big groups
Summary: nss_ldap segfaults on big groups
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: nss_ldap
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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Blocks: 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-09 15:04 UTC by Panu Matilainen
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-07-31 14:40:42 UTC
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Description Panu Matilainen 2003-01-09 15:04:19 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021216

Description of problem:
nss_ldap segfaults in presence of big(gish) groups on the ldap server. I'm not
sure what's the actual breakup point is, but for nss_ldap-198 and 202 its 100%
reproducible here with a group of 4793 users. Older versions (tested on RH7.2)
segfault much earlier, for nss_ldap-189-4 the breakup point seems to be 10 users
in a group.

I can "fix" it (tested on nss_ldap 198) by causing a memory leak by commenting
out "ldap_value_free (vals);" on line 158 of ldap-grp.c, after doing that I can
no more make it crash. Also it doesn't appear to be a null pointer since
changing it to
if (vals != NULL)
      ldap_value_free (vals);
doesn't help either. Oh and that doesn't help on nss_ldap-189..

Would be nice to have it fixed not just for the next release but for older
versions too... 



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 189, 198, 202 at
least (haven't tried earlier versions)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a group of at least (?) 4793 users on ldap server
2. configure client to fetch user information from ldap
3. run 'id username'

    

Actual Results:  [pmatilai@es-adsl-soho-30-186 pmatilai]$ id pmatilai
Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  I should print out the list of groups..

Additional info:

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2003-01-09 15:07:33 UTC
Forgot to mention: this is using RFC2307bis schema. If compiled without support
for that nss_ldap doesn't crash but then it doesn't provide much info either :)

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2003-02-11 08:45:28 UTC
This might very well be fixed in nss_ldap-203:
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=121

Unfortunately I'm not able to actually test it currently as someone has pulled
the plug on the LDAP-server :(

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2003-02-11 11:40:36 UTC
Confirmed now: after updating the current rawhide nss_ldap package to 203 it no
long segfaults.

Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2003-07-31 14:40:42 UTC
Severn has nss_ldap-207 and as mentioned earlier this was fixed in 203 already -
closing...


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