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Re: [PATCH] CVE-2014-8121: Fix nss_files file management [BZ#18007]
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:44:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] CVE-2014-8121: Fix nss_files file management [BZ#18007]
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Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
> On 02/23/2015 12:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Robin Hack discovered that Samba would enter an infinite loop when
>> processing quota-related requests. It turns out this is a bug in the
>> nss_files database. Performing a lookup in the middle of an iteration
>> (say, getwuid between getpwent) effectively resets the file pointer, so
>> that the iteration starts again from the beginning.
>>
>> Tested on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu. Okay to commit?
>
> Ping?
>
> Can we at least fix the most common instance of this bug?
It's the wrong way to fix the bug. The getpwuid function should use a
separate state local to this function, with _all_ backends.
Andreas.
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